Kamis, 11 Januari 2018

Sioux Agent Daniel F. Royer Saw Dancing and Panicked

The natives called him ‘Young Man Afraid of Indians’ In late November 1890, Daniel F. Royer, Indian agent at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, received a letter that precipitated the Wounded Knee Massacre and destroyed his own attempt to save the Sioux from what other whites hoped would be extermination. Lakota Chief Little Wound wrote the …

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