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 | Jun 8, 2023 | boarding schools, chaco canyon, Chuck Sams, Deb Haaland
I’m often surprised to find out that friends who follow political and cultural affairs closely still do not know who Deb Haaland is. With a hint, some of them come up with “oh yes, Department of Interior, isn’t it?” But her position and her presence are not front and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 8, 2022 | boarding schools, Chuck Sams, Deb Haaland, Mary Peltola
There is much worrying and gnashing of teeth at today’s election. I am tired of the daily solicitations for money from my liberal allies—it seems that once you have given to one political person or cause the money seekers from that edge of politics find you and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 12, 2022 | boarding schools, Deb Haaland
“HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. — The second stop on the Road to Healing tour by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community) will visit the lands of the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 1, 2022 | boarding schools, pope francis
The Canadian boarding school disclosures brought up old stories that had been neglected by governments and church hierarchies for decades. The stories are remembered well by the targets of religious coercion and victims of sexual and physical abuse who are with us...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 14, 2022 | assimilation, boarding schools, Indian Child Welfare Act, Indian Freedom of Religion Act
Over 400 men and women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who were adopted by American parents from Chile during the reign of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) are finding each other. They are learning that their biological mothers were told that they had died in childbirth, and...
