From Wounded Knee to the Gallows: The Life and Trials of Lakota Chief Two Sticks, Hall Philip S., Lewis Mary Solon

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From Wounded Knee to the Gallows, Philip S. Hall and Mary Solon Lewis mine government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglalas struggles, as reflected and perhaps epitomized in Two Stickss life and the miscarriage of justice that ended with his death.