What Calvin Coolidge Didn’t Understand About Native Americans
Though he was adopted by the Lakota Nation, he clung to a paternalistic mindset. During the summer of 1927, Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, was formally adopted into the Lakota nation. The ceremonies took place in Deadwood, South Dakota, with the prominent Sicangu Lakota activist and teacher Chauncy Yellow Robe presiding. Yellow[…]