Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage nature gathering them in from the

gathering them in from the shadows with remarkable empathy and candor

and to move onto reservations

” —Publishers Weekly

and geographic regions

in a constant quest for happiness

Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage nature gathering them in from theA 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