Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage

Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial MarriageA dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time Like any set of star crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled to the Dakota Territories to teach Native American students, undaunted by society's admonitions. Charles, a Dakota Sioux from Minnesota, educated at Dartmouth and Boston

the ecological crisis

and power from tribes across the North American continent

he identifies elements common to all the massacres

human rights issues

and a woman's relentless error

This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists

Chris Newell

we remind the world that we are still present

and bodies

employment

and interviews—along with other untapped Native sources

where she grew up after being born in an Appalachian prison