Chief Two Strike sits on a chair in front of a painted backdrop in this black and white studio photograph. He is wearing a shirt and long pants, and there is a blanket draped around his body. He has an axe laying across his lap. The photograph was taken at the Rosebud Reservation.
Some put Two Strike's birth date at 1821 and death date at 1914. He played an important role in the raids on the Union Pacific Railroad during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868). He was a member of a Sioux delegation to Washington, D.C., after the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. The Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation is located nine miles north of Valentine, Nebraska, in South Dakota.
