{"product_id":"from-wounded-knee-to-the-phillip-s-hall-9780806164915","title":"From Wounded Knee to the Gallows: The Life and Trials of Lakota Chief Two Sticks","description":"\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e Black Hills Daily Times\u003c\/i\u003e the next day read \"A GOOD INDIAN\"--a spiteful turn on the infamous saying \"The only good Indian is a dead Indian.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFrom Wounded Knee to the Gallows\u003c\/i\u003e, Philip S. Hall and Mary Solon Lewis mine government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala's struggles, as reflected and perhaps epitomized in Two Sticks's life and the miscarriage of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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip S. Hall, Mary Solon Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806164913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806164915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"Philip S. Hall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991396090111,"sku":"9780806164915","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1369819e-ac08-40ed-9a0d-341ab4763beb.jpg?v=1683310044","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-wounded-knee-to-the-phillip-s-hall-9780806164915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}