Constant Wonder

The Dust Within Us

Mar 15, 2023 · 52 min · Season 3 · Episode 11
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In 1863 on the South Dakota frontier, a Lakota Indian elder and a US army colonel had a tense and deadly encounter. They could not have known that their children would marry each other, and thus create a welded and complex legacy that generations of their descendants would work to reconcile.

Guest: Philip J. Deloria, Professor of History at Harvard University