Up next, author and National Parks service historian Jerome Greene talks about his book, american carnage, wounded knee, 1890. The book takes a comprehensive look at south dakota massacre, the causes and the aftermath. Talk, he recounts firsthand recollections from lakota indians about the day in which the u. S. Cavalry fired on their camp. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this program. I am curious how many of you have heard of wounded knee before today . It is wellknown next to the battle of the little bighorn. My first knowledge came from school, probably junior high school. I grew up in Northern New York state. I remember reading in the magazines of the day, this is way back in 1958, 1959, probably most of you were not even around then. I remember reading in the pulp magazines of the day that provided fodder for my interests. I know they carried articles on wounded knee. I remember asking my grandmother, who was born in 1881, she was a young girl, nine years old when wounded k
And so, that is lie. The other lie is that one star deets himself was an indian. He was convicted of fraud for pretending to be an indian because he was trying to dodge the draft. Yet, the team maintains on its website that is the origin of the name. Similarly, this team has an origin myth. They say it was a fellow named henry who was a baseball player for the team. They say they named their team and order to honor him. If you really begin to dig into that history, what we find is henry was treated incredibly badly by the fans. Second, he was not that good. He was not the kind of guy you would name your team for. He was not bad, but he was not that good. Third, he was not a very nice guy. All of this sort of suggests that they made that up. This is part of what goes on when dealing with indians and in the public discourse. Things get made up and indians become very malleable and they are formed in order to fill whatever particular role the institution or entity or state or country need
Coronavirus later on in the show. We have lots to get to on it veterans day. The banner headline on the New York Times, Elections Officials in every state find no fraud. They found, rather, quote, top Election Officials across the country in interviews and statements that the process had been remarkably successful despite record turnout in the complications of a dangerous pandemic. The New York Times was joined by the Associated Press whose journalists spread out across the country and came to the same conclusion. Their headline, quote, state cites smooth election despite trumps baseless claims. Elections experts told the Associated Press that the increase in early voting, with 107 Million People voting early, inperson, and by mail, helped take pressure off election day operations. The ap also noted that there were no incidents of violence at the polls or voter intimidation. Quote, the 2020 general election was one of the smoothest and most wellrun elections that we have ever seen, and
Greene talks about his book, american carnage, wounded knee, 1890. It looks at the south dakota massacre, the causes and the aftermath. He recounts worst hand firsthand recollections from lakota indians about the day in which the u. S. Cavalry fired on their camp. Killing about the kansas city 300. Public library hosted this program. How many of you have heard of wounded knee . I suspect virtually everyone has. It is probably, next to the battle of little big warned, the one armyindian and counter most people ive heard of. My knowledge comes from high school, junior high school. I grew up in new york state. I remember reading in the magazines of the day, this is way back in 1958, 59, probably most of you were not even around then. I remember reading in the pulp magazines of the day that provided fodder for my interests. I know they each carried articles on wounded knee. I remember asking my grandmother, who was born in 1881, she was a young girl, nine years old when wounded knee occurr
Battle of little big horn, the one armyindian encounter most people have heard of. My knowledge comes from high school, junior high school. I grew up in new york state. I remember reading in the magazines of the day, this is way back in 1958, 1959, probably most of you were not even around then. I remember reading in true west, frontier times, the pulp magazines of the day that provided fodder for my interests. I know they each carried articles on wounded knee. I remember asking my grandmother, who was born in 1881, she was a young girl, nine years old when wounded knee occurred, and about 1958, 59 i approached her and i can remember being in the room him in the house and i asked her if she remembered anything about hearing about wounded knee. I believe she told me that she thought vaguely that it sounded familiar to her. But that was a long time ago and she was an old lady. My first visit to the site came in 1969 when i was a graduate student at the university of south dakota. Wounded