“At Camp Release, Sibley arrested 392 Dakota men and established a military commission to try them for suspected participation in the war. A total of 307 men were sentenced to death, but Sibley reduced the number to 303 after reviewing the testimonies. Upon further review by President Lincoln, who sought to distinguish between Dakota soldiers who fought in battles and those accused of killing and assaulting unarmed civilians, the number was further reduced to 39. Tatemima (Round Wind) was reprieved prior to the execution date, and the remaining 38 men were hanged in Mankato on December 26, 1862. The war fractured communities and ruined lives. More than 600 European-American civilians and soldiers lost their lives, the majority being unarmed civilians. The U.S. government appropriated more than 1.3 million to pay damage claims; hundreds of homes and livelihoods were destroyed. The Dakota were expelled from Minnesota and communities were scattered throughout what is now North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana and Canada. Historians estimate that 75-100 Dakota were killed in the war, between 102-300 died at Fort Snelling and hundreds more died in the years following as a result of conditions on the Crow Creek reservation. U.S. military expeditions were launched in 1863 and 1864 to apprehend those Dakota who participated in the war but headed west. Eventually, the U.S. military removed many Dakota to reservations in what is now North and South Dakota. Intermittent fighting continued between the U.S. military and Dakota groups in the west during the late 1800s, culminating at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890.” 

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