Soon after the battle, Wamditanka, along with many others who had taken part in the war, surrendered to Gen. Sibley and was imprisoned. After three years in jail, he rejoined his band in Nebraska, moved back to Minnesota in 1869, and died in Granite Falls in 1906. Joseph Anderson was wounded at Birch Coulee and went home to St. Paul after the battle. He left Minnesota in 1877, returned once in 1894 for the dedication of the Birch Coulee monument in Morton, and died three years later in Oklahoma City. Francis J. Yellow, a member of the Lakota Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, is a visual artist and poet whose painting depicts the clash of cultures that culminated in the U.S.-Dakota War; the scaffold at the upper right refers to the government’s trial and execution of 40 Dakota men after the war.