by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 19, 2023 | Allotment Act, American Indian Religious Freedom Act, BIA, Indian assimilation, Indian boarding schools, Indian Child Welfare Act, Indian Freedom of Religion Act, Indian history, Indian religious freedom act, Indian wars, land ownership, National Geographic, Neil Gorsuch, Relocation program, Removal Act of 1830
Last week the Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act. “The bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners’ challenges to the statute, some on the merits and others for lack of standing,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative Trump...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 16, 2023 | Allotment Act, Dawes Act, Umatilla, Umatilla Confederated Tribes, umatilla reservation
In 1855, at the treaty negotiations in Walla Walla, the Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla peoples were left a reservation of 245,699 acres, and the ability to hunt, fish, and gather in “usual and accustomed places” off the reservation lands. Over a century of...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 27, 2022 | African Americans, Allotment Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil War, Code Talker, colonialism, Dawes Act, Supreme Court, white supremacy
Men! And, yes mostly white men of Anglo descent, the ones who took Indian lands away with treaties and wars, lies, legislation, disease, and depleting food stocks, who brought the slaves and wrote the Constitution and engaged in a Civil War over Black men and women as...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 2, 2020 | Allotment Act, growth and greed, Indian Offenses, Indian survival, reliance
A friend asked me recently how I remain cheerful. She’s older than my 77 years, and we were both visiting a yet older friend in the hospital. It took me fewer than 30 seconds to almost automatically reply “Indians.” Indians have put up with every abuse, had their...
