death_date tribe birth_place image_size native_name birth_date image article_title name nicknames
1915 brulé , lakota white river valley 250px '' '' ' ` numpkahapa '' ' , '' ` nomkahpa 1831 chief two strike.jpg two strike -lrb- lakota leader -rrb-
 chief two strike `` knocks two off ''
two strike -lrb- lakota leader -rrb-

two strike -lrb- numpkahapa , 1831 -- 1915 -rrb- was a brulé lakota chief born in the white river valley in the northwest of present day nebraska .
he earned his lakota name `` nomkahpa '' , meaning `` knocks two off '' in a battle with the utes , when he knocked two utes off their horses with a single blow of his war club .
two strike fought in various battles against the u.s. army during the time of bozeman trail wars , allied with chief crow dog and chief crazy horse in the powder river country of wyoming .
two strike and his band were present along with bands of the southern cheyenne , at the battle of summit springs in colorado on july 11 , 1869 , when the u.s. fifth cavalry and 50 pawnee scouts made a surprise attack against their camp .
buffalo bill cody was present at the battle serving in the capacity as chief scout .
chief tall bull of the southern cheyenne along with 51 members of the combined lakota-cheyenne encampment were killed and 17 women and children were taken prisoner , the rest of the lakota and cheyenne managed to escape .
the soldiers then burned their camp including their tipis and supplies .
chief two strike was one of the principal chiefs of combined oglala and brulé war party of over a thousand braves that attacked a group of 350 pawnee that had left their reservation in nebraska to hunt buffalo .
more than 70 pawnee were killed in the battle which occurred in and along a canyon in present day hitchcock county , nebraska .
the canyon was subsequently named massacre canyon .
