3 January 1891
Racist advocacyBook sources
L. Frank Baum advocates extermination
South Dakota; Indigenous peoples
After Wounded Knee, Baum’s newspaper editorial endorsed extermination of Native peoples. The episode records public advocacy that normalized mass violence rather than an enacted policy.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
Historical advocacy entry; no need to reproduce the slurs or full passage.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8