Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota: Book by Minnie Buce Carrigan, originally appeared as a serial in the Buffalo Lake News. Carrigan lived in Renville County, and was a child of 7 when taken captive by the Sioux in 1862. Full text in HTML or page images.
Dakota Meadows Middle School: The Dakota Conflict of 1862: Overview, chronology, maps, list of battles, biographies of white and Dakota leaders, personal stories of people caught up in the Conflict, short original essays, and bibliography. Requires frames.
John McClymer: The Dakota Conflict of 1862: Illustrated overview prepared for a college course in history. Includes discussion questions.
Massacre of Minnesota settlers: Lithograph depicting Native Americans fighting with whites. Published probably before 1864.
Minnesota Civil War Map of Battles: Shows approximate locations of Fort Ridgely and Wood Lake.
Minnesota State University EMuseum: The Dakota Conflict: Historical essay on the causes, battles, and aftermath of the Dakota Conflict.
Minnesota's Uncivil War: Feature story from Minnesota Public Radio on the 1862 Dakota War and its effects today. RealAudio files, transcript with illustrations.
Red Rock Central High School: Dakota Conflict: Redwood Falls student project offers a timeline of the Sioux Uprising, original essays on important places and events, full text of a book on related monuments in Redwood and Renville Counties, links, photographs, bibliographies.
The 1862 US-Dakota War: A wargames club presents a summary of its research on the historical causes of the Dakota uprising and on major battles in the conflict.
The Dakota Conflict Trials, 1862: Illustrated essay covers not only the military trials, but also the historical background and the events of the Sioux Uprising itself, which proved to be the beginning of a generation of Indian wars that came to a bloody end at Wounded Knee.
The Sioux Uprising of 1862: Student project at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Includes 1862 map of Minnesota, a day-by-day account of the war, short biographies of Little Crow and John Other Day, comments on the results of the conflict.