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"We cannot honestly regret their extermination, but we at least do justice to the manly characters possessed, according to their lights and education, by the early Redskins of America."

And January3 1891, five days after the Wounded Knee Massacre, he wrote a second editorial:

"The Pioneer has before declared that our safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth. In this lies the dafety for our settllers and the soldiers who are underin competent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the Redskins as those have been in the past."

"We cannot honestly regret their extermination"

Clearly the words of a man advocating large scale genocide!

In 2006, two descendants of Baum apologized to the Sioux Nation for any hurt their ancestor had caused

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