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From Wounded Knee to the gallows : the life and trials of Lakota chief Two Sticks / Philip S. Hall, Mary Solon Lewis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2020]Description: x, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780806164915
  • 0806164913
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Contents:
Starting at the hangman's noose -- The political road to Wounded Knee -- The Indian unrest that brought Can Nopa Uhah to the Gallows -- The killing of Ike Miller -- The peacemaker -- A good Indian is murdered -- The Indian who killed Lieutenant Casey -- Plenty Horses's second trial -- Frontier justice -- For what, simply killing an Indian? -- Pine Ridge, 1891: A time of gloom -- Pine Ridge, 1892: A year of resistance -- No water and his camp of malcontents -- The Brown-Eastman dispute -- Looking at the Brown-Eastman dispute through others' eyes -- Can Nopa Uhah's crime -- Catching the culprits -- The frontier peers into the twentieth century -- The wheels of justice turn slowly -- Two Sticks's trial -- The hanging.
Summary: "The story of the Lakota chief Can Nopa Uhah, Two Sticks, who was wrongfully accused of murdering four white cowboys and hung in 1894. Uses government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala's struggles in the events leading up to and in the wake of Wounded Knee"-- Provided by publisher.
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On December 28, 1894, the day before the fourth anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South Dakota. The headline in the Black Hills Daily Times the next day read "A GOOD INDIAN"--a spiteful turn on the infamous saying "The only good Indian is a dead Indian."



On the gallows, Two Sticks, known among his people as Can Nopa Uhah, declared, "My heart knows I am not guilty and I am happy." Indeed, years later, convincing evidence emerged supporting his claim. The story of Two Sticks, as recounted in compelling detail in this book, is at once the righting of a historical wrong and a record of the injustices visited upon the Lakota in the wake of Wounded Knee. The Indian unrest of 1890 did not end with the massacre, as the government willfully neglected, mismanaged, and exploited the Oglala in a relentless, if unofficial, policy of racial genocide that continues to haunt the Black Hills today. In From Wounded Knee to the Gallows , Philip S. Hall and Mary Solon Lewis mine government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala's struggles, as reflected and perhaps epitomized in Two Sticks's life and the miscarriage of justice that ended with his death.



Bracketed by the run-up to, and craven political motivation behind, Wounded Knee and the later revelations establishing Two Sticks's innocence, this is a history of a people threatened with extinction and of one man felled in a battle for survival hopelessly weighted in the white man's favor. With eyewitness immediacy, this rigorously researched and deeply informed account at long last makes plain the painful truth behind a dark period in U.S. history.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-270) and index.

Starting at the hangman's noose -- The political road to Wounded Knee -- The Indian unrest that brought Can Nopa Uhah to the Gallows -- The killing of Ike Miller -- The peacemaker -- A good Indian is murdered -- The Indian who killed Lieutenant Casey -- Plenty Horses's second trial -- Frontier justice -- For what, simply killing an Indian? -- Pine Ridge, 1891: A time of gloom -- Pine Ridge, 1892: A year of resistance -- No water and his camp of malcontents -- The Brown-Eastman dispute -- Looking at the Brown-Eastman dispute through others' eyes -- Can Nopa Uhah's crime -- Catching the culprits -- The frontier peers into the twentieth century -- The wheels of justice turn slowly -- Two Sticks's trial -- The hanging.

"The story of the Lakota chief Can Nopa Uhah, Two Sticks, who was wrongfully accused of murdering four white cowboys and hung in 1894. Uses government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala's struggles in the events leading up to and in the wake of Wounded Knee"-- Provided by publisher.

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