Conversations with Clay Jenkinson – Wounded Knee

On December 29, 1890, an engagement between Big Foot’s band of Lakota Indians and the US military’s Seventh Cavalry (the same military unit that Lt Col George A. Custer led to a devastating defeat at the Little Big Horn in Montana in 1876) resulted in what was first called the “Battle of Wounded Knee” and is today called the “Wounded Knee Massacre.” Humanities scholar and author, Clay S. Jenkinson and Bismarck State College President Larry C. Skogen dispassionately discusses what happened on that terrible winter day.

Watch Conversations with Clay Jenkinson – Wounded Knee on Video On Demand. (To view this show online, you will need Windows Media Player.)

These are conversations they both believe North Dakotans need to have. Their goal is to help people of the state reconnect with key events in their history within a broader social context and to spotlight Bismarck State College as an important player in promoting humanities within the community. These programs were funded in part by the North Dakota Humanities Council.

You can find more information and schedules on our web site.

Visit “Conversations at Bismarck State College” at: www.bsctalk.com.