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I'd say that 500 if a goodly bit from a few dozen as well.

It was an ugly episode but it seems Lincoln handled it about as well as possible under the circumstances.

Funny how it was brought up by a person spouting the neo-confederate line. I'd only assume they never heard about the Denmak Vassey "conspiracy" where around 30 or so blacks, slave and free, were hung in Charleston after a supposed "plan" for a revolt was uncovered. No whites were harmed in any way, and many historians think the supposed plot never existed in the first place, but the blacks were promptly hung just in case.

There were thousands of settlers in southern Minnesota at the time, [my great grandparents among them], and most never even saw a warparty.
Certainly, dozens of whites were killed, [in southern Minnesota] and hundreds were captives, but most of the action was limited to the [upper] Minnesota river valley. [which I consider is in the western part of the State]

More than 500 Americans died. 60 Dakota Souix died in the fighting that lasted 37 days.

Yes, it was probably our biggest indian uprising.
-- But the the fact remains, it is hyped up BS that:
"Within a week almost every farm cabin and settlment in southern Minnesota was wiped out and most inhabitants murdered with devilish barbarities. --

" I'd say that 500 if a goodly bit from a few dozen as well.

Yep, 400 confirmed deaths in all of Minnesota [ best count by Satterlee, a historian of the day] is still a goodly bit.
But the 'southern wipe out' is BS.