L. Frank Baum(1856-1919)

Descendants of his went to South Dakota (in August 2006) to give an official apology to the descendants of Amerian Indian--mainly Sioux--tribes for newspaper editorials Baum wrote in 1890 justifying the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of Indians by US troops that year and advocating the extermination of all surviving Indians.

[from an Aberdeen (SD) "Saturday Pioneer" editorial he wrote after the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee] [Wounded Knee] resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers and was "a disgrace to the war department . . . the "Pioneer" has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination [sic] 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.