by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 10, 2023 | Bears Ears National Monument, Deb Haaland, Grand Canyon
The Joe Biden and Deb Haaland team have done remarkable things in Indian Country. There have been the boarding schools investigation, the appointments of tribal figures to key government posts, the saving of Bears Ears, and then the Grand Canyon National Monument this...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 22, 2022 | Bears Ears National Monument, Chuck Sams, Deb Haaland, Jaime Pinkham
In today’s paper I read that President Biden reversed Trump yet again, effectively returning to a 2014 policy that forbade the use of antipersonnel landmines in all but the defense of South Korea. It seems that a lot of what Biden does reverses previous government...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 29, 2016 | apartheid, Bears Ears National Monument, Corps of Engineers, Gandhi, Garrison Dam, Mandela, peace politics, Raymond Cross, Standing Rock
Fortunately, 2016 might be the year in which some significant portion of the general public sees that what is good for American Indians is good for all of us, that Indian affairs are American affairs. That, for me, is one lesson of the now well-told story of Standing...
