The Wounded Knee Massacre is far from a fatal affair in the Wild West. New Yorkers played a prominent role in the violence that happened on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
L. Frank Baum, the author of "The Wizard of Oz," born in Chittenango, openly called for the extermination of Indigenous peoples while serving as the Aberdeen Saturday Review's newspaper editor.
First Sergeant Frederick Ernest Toy of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, a Buffalo native, earned a Medal of Honor alongside 19 other U.S. Army soldiers and is still honored with a plaque inside the Niagara Falls Veterans Memorial.
“Remembering a Massacre: A Roundtable on Wounded Knee,” a special two-part program, hosted and moderated by Gabriel Pietrorazio, Indigenous affairs editor, invites some of the most influential voices from Indian Country to reflect on the shrouded historical legacy behind one of the most deadly mass shootings in American history, one that still stokes intergenerational grief and trauma for Native communities across the continent.
This two-part program was recorded on Friday, Dec. 17, edited and later produced virtually in Washington, D.C.
