What caused the 1890 massacre of nearly 300 unarmed Native Americans and did politics play a role? We’ll explore the story this hour with University of Massachusetts historian Heather Cox Richardson, author of “Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre” (Basic Books, 2010).
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