by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 2, 2022 | Blackfeet, bureau of Indian Affairs, Deb Haaland, Department of Interior, Elouise Cobell
My friend Betsy Marston of “Writers on the Range” just wrote a wonderful tribute to Elouise Cobell. Elouise Cobell was, I am ashamed to say, a new name to me. Maybe I had heard it—I was vaguely aware of the lawsuit that consumed her working life. But I had not...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 3, 2020 | Blackfeet, Chuck Sams, fur trade and smallpox, measles, Shoshone, smallpox, smallpox epidemic of 1780s, umatilla reservation, Willamette Valley tribes
Chuck Sams is the incident commander for coronavirus response on the Umatilla Reservation. He recently told Oregon Public Radio’s “Think Out Loud” that “The tribes [Umatilla, Cayuse, Walla Walla] have faced pandemic before; our last one ended in around 1860, but that...
