Kenny Chaffin

2025-10-13 20:11:38

A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart

https://theconversation.com/a-white-poet-and-a-sioux-doctor-fell-in-love-after-wounded-knee-racism-and-sexism-would-drive-them-apart-263175

A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart

Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman’s 19th-century interracial marriage made them a media sensation. But tensions over gender, race and identity ultimately proved too hard to overcome.

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