

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Event with Julie Dobrow, Love and Loss After Wounded Knee
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 08 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: NEW DATE DUE TO SNOW! Join us on Sunday February 8th as we welcome Tufts professor and author Julie Dobrow to Whitelam Books! She'll discuss and sign her new book, Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage

A dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time

Like any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled to the Dakota Territories to teach Native American students, undaunted by society's admonitions. Charles, a Dakota Sioux from Minnesota, educated at Dartmouth and Boston University Medical School, was considered by his Euro-American mentors the epitome of an assimilated Indian. But when they met just ahead of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, the magnetic pull of love brought them together despite the tremendous odds stacked against them.

Love and Loss After Wounded Knee offers a dual biography of Elaine Goodale and Ohíye'Sa, (Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman), exploring their individual lives as well as their highly publicized interracial marriage. Both well-known in their own time- Elaine as a poet, journalist, and advocate for Indian education and Charles as writer, public speaker, and ardent activist for Indian rights- their marriage started with a shared vision to work on behalf of Indians. In the face of extreme prejudice, financial burden, and personal tragedy however, the marriage began to unravel.

Dobrow paints an intimate, emotional portrait of the Eastmans' lives drawn from Elaine and Charles's letters, papers, and hundreds of accounts of the Eastmans' lives from newspapers. Along the way, she skillfully illuminates the shifting late 19th and early 20th century definitions of Indigenous identity, and reveals how the Eastmans' legacies reflect changing American attitudes toward gender, interracial relationships and biracial children. The result is a compelling new history that weds the private and the political, and Native America and the United States of America- entwined yet separated, inextricable yet never fully joined, just like Elaine and Charles themselves.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Reading
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 610 Main Street, Reading, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01867
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- **long**: -71.10317
- **full address**: 610 Main Street, Reading, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01867

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- **organizer**: Whitelam Books (https://allevents.in/org/whitelam-books/12071572)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 08 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 610 Main Street, Reading, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01867
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Whitelam Books
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
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