Published Apr 26, 2021
89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)
Delve into the tumultuous closing of the 19th-century American frontier through the assimilation policies impacting Native Americans, the spiritual upheaval and suppression of the Ghost Dance movement culminating in the Wounded Knee massacre, and Buffalo Bill's Wild West show’s complex portrayal of Native culture at the 1893 Colombian Expo.
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