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

  • Written by Julie Dobrow, Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University
A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apartNative American children ride bikes near the cemetery at Wounded Knee, the site of the Dec. 29, 1890, massacre of Sioux tribal members.Richmatts/iStock via Getty Images

Like many star-crossed lovers, Elaine Goodale and Charles Alexander Eastman came from different worlds.

Goodale, born in 1863 to a family claiming Puritan roots, grew up on a farm in...

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