From Wounded Knee to the gallows : the life and trials of Lakota chief Two Sticks

Hall, Philip S., 1943- author.

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"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 Uses government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala's struggles in the events leading up to and in the wake of Wounded Knee"-- Provided by publisher.

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Dakota Biography

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Oglala Social conditions 19th century

Two Sticks, 1832?-1894

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ISBN:

9780806164915

Description:

x, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270) and index

Contents:

Staring 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 Horse'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 Stick's trial
The hanging

LCCN:

2019058088

Control Number:

2904888

Other Authors:

Lewis, Mary Solon, 1936- author

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