Sunday, November, 30 , 2025
Time: 3:00 PM
Bemis Hall

Book Talk:

Like any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine Goodale and Dr.Charles Alexander Eastman came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Berkshires, traveled to the Dakota Territories as a young woman to teach Native American students, undaunted by society’s admonitions. Charles, or Ohíye’Sa, a Santee Sioux from Minnesota, educated at Dartmouth and Boston University Medical School, was considered by his Euro-American mentors the epitome of an assimilated Indian. They met in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, at a time of rising tensions between white settlers and the Sioux. Against the backdrop of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, the magnetic pull of love brought Elaine and Charles together.

Join Tufts professor, biographer and LHS Board member Julie Dobrow as she talks about her new book, which tells the sweeping true story of a romance that defied racial boundaries, social expectations, and the violent backdrop of U.S. expansion.