by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 25, 2022 | 1855 treaty, 1863 treaty, Alice Flether, Allen Pinkham, smallpox, smallpox epidemic of 1780s, Snake River
It’s holiday time, Thanksgiving and I am in Oregon City at my son’s place, reading the morning news on my computer. The house is quiet with people sleeping off yesterday’s meal and working from home on their computers. I got up early and read for an hour in a book...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 5, 2021 | 1855 treaty, 1863 treaty, Alvin Josephy, Bear’s Paw, Chief Joseph, Chief Joseph Days, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Homeland, Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest, Nez Perce stories, Nez Perce treaty
October 5, 1877 is the day on which the wal’wá·ma band of the Nez Perce and members of other non-treaty bands lost their freedom. They’d intended to go quietly from the Wallowa to the reduced Idaho reservation, leaving and losing their homeland but continuing to live...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 9, 2021 | 1855 treaty, 1863 treaty, Chief Joseph, Chief Joseph Cemetery, Colville Reservation, Lapwai, Nez Perce, Nez Perce War, umatilla reservation
The recent Nez Perce reacquisition of 148 acres near the town of Joseph was a big event. Scores of walkers and riders with their horses gathered at the school on the hill on one side of Joseph, and made the journey through town and onto the airport road to the place...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 15, 2021 | 1855 treaty, Chief Joseph, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Wallowa, wallowa homeland, women’s rights
Our national founding documents talk about all men being created “equal,” and many see the history of the country as a gradual expansion of “all men” to include black men—14th Amendment, 1868; women—19th Amendment, 1920; and, in 1924, when they were finally given...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 23, 2018 | 1855 treaty, Boldt decision, Coho Salmon, Nez Perce Fisheries
I got this “FYI” from Jim Harbeck at Nez Perce Fisheries here in Joseph last night:“The first Coho Salmon to return to the Lostine River in over 40 years came back home this morning… I think we’ll see at least a few hundred Coho this fall at our weir on the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 4, 2014 | 1855 treaty, Alvin Josephy, Civil War and Indians, Civil War In the West, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Stevens treaties
Yesterday in line at the grocery store, a new young clerk was telling someone how interested he was in the Civil War, and how he really wanted to go east and visit Antietam. I piped up to suggest that he think about the civil war in the west. Had he ever...
