by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 18, 2023 | assimilation, Assimilationists, boarding schools, Don Gray, Judd Koehn, Tom Dimond
A couple of weeks ago I went with friends to an art opening for Judd Koehn at the Pendleton Arts Center. Judd is a retired art professor who taught for many years at Eastern Oregon University. Once, a long time ago, when we bought the building that became the Bookloft...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 17, 2018 | Alvin Josephy, Assimilationists, Hellen Hunt Jackson, John Rolfe, Pocahontas
Pocahontas–aka Lady RebeccaI don’t know when it started—maybe with the very first meetings of Europeans and the Indians of North America. The Powhatan child, Pocahontas, at the Jamestown settlement, is certainly an early example of an Indian captured, converted,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 2, 2016 | 4th of July, Alice Flether, Assimilationists, Dawes Act, Henry Teller, Office of Indian Affairs, religious crimes code
American Indians’ patriotism and Indian celebrations of America’s favorite patriotic holiday are as complex and convoluted as is the overall dance of American History—although Indians, as Alvin Josephy said only half jokingly, don’t have history—or biography; they...
