Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage by Julie Dobrow '81

Author, biographer and Tufts University professor Julie Dobrow’s new book, Love and

Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage, tells

the story of Elaine Goodale and Ohíye S’a, aka Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman, who met in South Dakota in 1890, and fell instantly in love. The Eastman’s complicated relationship was emblematic of seismic changes in gender, race and Indigenous identity issues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dobrow will talk about her research for the book, and the fascinating way in which she first discovered this story while working as a student in Smith's Special Collections.