Pine Ridge South Dakota Sioux Indians Two Strike Band Butcher 1908 Real Photo Postcard

The image features the Two Strike Band, led by Chief Two Strike (Nomkahpa), a prominent leader of the Sicangu (Brulé) Lakota. Photographed at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1891, this period immediately followed the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 1890, a devastating event that marked the end of major armed conflict between the U.S. government and the Lakota people. The reservation was a site of immense change and cultural suppression as the Lakota grappled with the forced assimilation policies of the era.