• Teaching Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University
Native 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

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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