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 | Nov 21, 2020 | 1855 Great, 1863 treaty, Chief Joseph, General Howard, Grace Bartlett, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, President Grant, Wallowa
I have been fascinated by President Grant’s proposed “Reservation for the Roaming Nez Perce Indians of the Wallowa Valley” since I saw the map of it in Grace Bartlett’s Wallowa Country: 1867-1877 years ago. I thought that if those Nez Perce had just had the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 22, 2013 | 1855 treaty, 1863 treaty, Idaho gold rush, Indian treaties, Indian wars, Isaac Stevens, Nez Perce, Walla walla treaty, Wallowa Country
In 1863 the Joseph or Wallowa Band Nez Perce lived quietly in the Wallowa Country, isolated by mountains on three sides and the Snake River Canyon to the east. There were no white settlers—though a couple of French trappers married to Nez Perce women had lived among...
