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Theodore Roosevelt, as a believer in white superiority, was a man of his times. But he grew as a political leader and as a person. He brimmed with contradictions. He once considered American Indians to be "savages" — but invited chiefs to ride in his inaugural parade.

Plains Wars, series of conflicts from the early 1850s through the late 1870s between Native Americans and the United States, along with its Indian allies, over control of the Great Plains between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Learn more about the Plains Wars here.

Whitestone Hill and Wounded Knee remembered as sad episodes in regional history.

Whitestone Hill and Wounded Knee remembered as sad episodes in regional history. Written By: Mike Jacobs | × Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist. GRAND FORKS — Last week’s activities remembering the destruction of Greenwood, the black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., known as “Black Wall Street,” which occurred 100 years ago, should call to mind examples of what have been called “massacres” in our own region. The most notorious of these occurred at Wounded Knee, S.D., on De...

Whitestone Hill and Wounded Knee remembered as sad episodes in regional history. Written By: Mike Jacobs | × Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist. GRAND FORKS — Last week’s activities remembering the destruction of Greenwood, the black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., known as “Black Wall Street,” which occurred 100 years ago, should call to mind examples of what have been called “massacres” in our own region. The most notorious of these occurred at Wounded Knee, S.D., on De...

Walter Liggett as seen Jan. 1, 1929. Public Domain / Underwood & Underwood / Wikimedia Commons / Special to The Forum Walter Liggett was a reporter for the Journal and Daily News in Minneapolis and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, prior to 1908 when he worked as a reporter for the Fargo Forum (now The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead). He then edited newspapers in Alaska and the state of Washington and, in 1918, returned to North Dakota to edit the Fargo Courier News and then briefly served as editor of Bism...