Whitestone Hill and Wounded Knee remembered as sad episodes in regional history.
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Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist.
GRAND FORKS Last week’s activities remembering the destruction of Greenwood, the black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., known as “Black Wall Street,” which occurred 100 years ago, should call to mind examples of what have been called “massacres” in our own region.
The most notorious of these occurred at Wounded Knee, S.D., on Dec. 30, 1890. U.S. troops attacked a band of refugees fleeing from the Standing Rock nation, which extends into North Dakota, after the killing of Sitting Bull on the Grand River, just inside the one-year-old state of South Dakota.
Walter Liggett as seen Jan. 1, 1929. Public Domain / Underwood & Underwood / Wikimedia Commons / Special to The Forum
Walter Liggett was a reporter for the Journal and Daily News in Minneapolis and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, prior to 1908 when he worked as a reporter for the Fargo Forum (now The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead). He then edited newspapers in Alaska and the state of Washington and, in 1918, returned to North Dakota to edit the Fargo Courier News and then briefly served as editor of Bismarck’s Capital Daily.
Liggett spent the next 16 years working for various agencies, writing articles for major publications, and editing newspapers in New York City and Minnesota. In 1935, he founded the Mid-Western American newspaper in Minneapolis, which featured several stories about organized crime headed by Kid Cann, who had links to Minnesota Gov. Floyd Olson. Later that year, Liggett was gunned down by a man Mrs. Liggett and a neighbor lady positively identified as Cann, but he was a
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