by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 3, 2024 | buffalo
The Lewiston Highway is a hot one now, and there is a good chance that you’ll breathe smoke driving it, but just months ago it was something else. I found this piece I started in spring and didn’t get around to finishing and sending out. I hope it cools you down. I...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 25, 2023 | beaver, beaver hats, buffalo, Ken Burns, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Oregon, salmon
The new Ken Burns documentary, the American Buffalo, follows the Euro-Americans across the continent as they kill buffalo, kill them mostly for profit—meat for the railroad workers; tongues which fetched high prices as culinary delicacies in the East; buffalo robes...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 12, 2021 | Alvin Josephy, American Indians, Appomattox. Robert E. Lee, assimilation, Bing Crosby, buffalo, Cour d'Alene Tribe, demise of buffalo, Indian agriculture, Indian history, Indian Relocation, Indian removal, Indian reservations, Indian slavery, Indian survival, Indians and salmon, Indians in unexpected places
“Rumble” is a 2017 Canadian documentary film that I’d missed until it hit public television. I watched it twice, taking notes the second time, wanting to get in my mind the names of Rock n’ Roll, jazz, and blues musicians I’d listened to—and many I had not heard or...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 22, 2021 | buffalo, Sioux
History’s a complicated mosaic, and the more I read and hear from Indian elders, the more complicated it gets. But also, more interesting. Historians have tales to tell, arguments to make, which means that they sometimes miss the nuances—or even the major...
