The U.S. military promises the Dakota that if they surrender peacefully, they will be granted safety. The Dakota surrender at the “Battle of Wood Lake,” and hundreds of Dakota, some of whom had nothing to do with the uprising, are arrested and tried by a five-man military commission. In many cases, trials last less than five minutes and there is no due process; most have no idea what was happening. Among 393 people, 323 are convicted of “murder and other outrages,” and 303 are sentenced to death by hanging. It is reported that on the day that the largest mass government execution is carried out. The 38 Dakota sing their death songs as they walk toward the scaffold, and they continue to sing and clasp each other’s’ manacled hands as the nooses are tied around their necks. Thousands of White settlers gather and cheer while they are executed (Nies, 1996). (https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/hanging-dakota-38-troubling-legacy-president-lincoln).