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BAUM RELATIVES APOLOGIZE FOR AUTHOR'S EDITORIALS.(Local)(Editorial)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20060817
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Descendants of "Wizard of Oz" creator L. Frank Baum are in South Dakota this week to apologize to American Indians for editorials Baum wrote in 1890 advocating the extermination of Indians.

Baum, who was born in Chittenango and is honored every year in the village's OzFest, wrote the editorials when he owned the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. The editorials, written just before and after the massacre of about 300 Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee, called for the "total annihilation of the few remaining Indians."

In South Dakota this week are Baum's great-great-grandson, Mac ...

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