| Description |
1 online resource (x, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| 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 Uses government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala's struggles in the events leading up to and in the wake of Wounded Knee"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Two Sticks, 1832?-1894.
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Lakota Indians -- Biography
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Oglala Indians -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Lakota Indians
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Oglala Indians -- Social conditions
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewis, Mary Solon, 1936- author
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| ISBN |
9780806166971 |
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0806166975 |
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