The execution of Sioux leaders, Little Six and Medicine Bottle who were convicted of war crimes against the citizens of Minnesota during the Dakota War of 1862,

 The execution of Sioux leaders, Little Six and Medicine Bottle who were convicted of war crimes against the citizens of Minnesota during the Dakota War of 1862, Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 1865. 

The Minnesota Massacre in August 1862 resulted in the deaths of more than 450 settlers living near the reservation. 

When the annual payment from the government failed to arrive on time, Wo-wi-na-pa, the son of Little Crow, and some other Dakota men led an attack against the white settlers. Among them were Little Six, the grandson of Shakopee and leader of the Mdewakanton band, and Medicine Bottle, the nephew of Chief Medicine Bottle. Little Six and Medicine Bottle fled to Canada after the massacre. In early December 1862, the military convicted 303 Sioux prisoners of murder and rape by military tribunals and sentenced them to death. Thirty-eight of the convicted were hanged all at once, making it the largest hanging in American History. Medicine Bottle and Little Six evaded capture for almost two years until Major Edwin Hatch kidnapped them in January of 1864. They were put on trial with Wo-wi-na-pa and charged with war crimes. Wo-wi-na-pa managed to escape the noose, but Little Six and Medicine Bottle did not. They were hanged at Fort Snelling in 1865.