by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 9, 2023 | 1492, Columbus, Columbus Day, Columbus Day & Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, Philip Deloria, Philip J. Deloria
I and my peers grew up with Columbus Day, not a big holiday, unless you lived in an Italian neighborhood, but a middle of the run holiday that meant bank closures and a day off from school. There was little thinking about it—beyond hackneyed stereotypes of Columbus...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 10, 2021 | 1492, A Walk Toward Oregon, Alvin Josephy, America in 1492, american immigrants, Scandinavians, Scott Momaday, Way to Rainy Mountain
I remember a long time ago, maybe 40 years ago, when I had the bookstore in Enterprise and waited each summer for the Josephys to arrive from the East. Betty would drop Alvin off at the bookstore and go visiting. Alvin would begin browsing the “local” section, and ask...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 8, 2021 | 1492, Helper t-cells, HLA, immunity, Indan history, Indian history, indigenous americans, Indigenous population of America, infectious diseases
Since the beginning of this pandemic, I have been struck by the outsized impact of Covid-19 on American Indians, and by the lack of serious discussion of their apparent special vulnerability to the disease. The stories we read and hear are about bad water and poor...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 30, 2011 | 1491, 1492, Alvin Josephy, Charles Mann, Indian history
“The realization has finally begun to dawn that American society as a whole has suffered from ‘forked tongue’ history books… Year after year, the distortions, misrepresentations, and failure to tell the whole historical story foster erroneous and stereotyped thinking...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 15, 2011 | 1492, Alvin Josephy, Custer Battlefield, pre-columbian america, Wounded Knee
Alvin Josephy died in 2005. I read something that he wrote—or that was written to or about him—almost every day. And I am continually amazed by what he said and when and where he said it. In Life Magazine in 1971, Josephy wrote that the US government interpreters were...
