by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 19, 2017 | 500 nations, Alvin Josephy, Charles and Valerie Diker, Maria and Julian Martinez, MET, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peter Rindisbacher
A recent piece in the New York Times described a large collection of “modern” and American Indian art being donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The headline is telling: “Native American Treasures Head to the Met, This Time as American Art.”...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 13, 2016 | 500 nations, Alvin Josephy, PTSD, Sebastian Junger, Tribe
I liked the argument in Sebastian Junger’s new book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, but cringed throughout the first chapters as he lumped all American Indians together and made them stone-age hunter-gatherers, “a native population that had barely changed,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 11, 2012 | 500 nations, Alvin Josephy, Bear River Massacre, Civil War and Indians, Pacific Northwest History Conference, Sand Creek Massacre
Back in April, I got notice that the theme for the Pacific Northwest History Association’s fall meeting in Tacoma, Washington was to be “The Civil War and Civil Rights.” As it happened, I was reading Alvin J’s The Civil War in the American West at the time, and...
