A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart

A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart

Native American children ride bikes near the cemetery at Wounded Knee, the site of the Dec. 29, 1890, massacre of Sioux tribal members. Richmatts/iStock via Getty ImagesLike many star-crossed lovers, Elaine Goodale and Charles Alexander Eastman came from different worlds. Goodale, born in 1863 to a family claiming Puritan roots, grew up on a farm in a remote part of western Massachusetts. In 1858, a baby first named Hakadah, later called Ohíye S…