Charles Eastman, into the middle of a real historical event, Little Bighorn, where young Eastman hadn’t really been, after which he starts a romance with another real person, the schoolteacher and poet Elaine Goodale, whom he wouldn’t really meet until much later, and who is also plunked down where, historically, she really wasn’t. These liberties consist of sticking a real person, the Dartmouth-educated mixed-race Sioux Dr. Perhaps you were as shocked as I was to learn from the New York Times a couple of weeks ago that the new cable-television production of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee had taken some liberties with the text of Dee Brown’s 1970 best seller. Illustration by Henry Jansen Photo: Annabel Reyes/Courtesy of HBO
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