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Er, that's a hard one, but the answer is really somewhere in the middle. Yes, when he was a newspaper editor in South Dakota, L. Frank Baum did write some shocking editorials advocating genocide against the local Native Americans. But this was hardly unique, in that most of the other white settlers were afraid of them. Baum was an advocate of women's suffrage and other progressive causes of his day, and so this was an atypical stand for him. He was likely lashing out in frustration over the economic hardships he and the rest of the Dakota Territory were going through at the time. Baum was a product of his times, and it took many decades before attitudes towards Native Americans and other ethnic groups changed in the United States.

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