by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 17, 2026 | African Americans, Alvin Josephy, American Indian history, assimilation, bureau of Indian Affairs, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Depression, Donald Trump, Eisenhower, expulsions, German immigrants, ICE, immigration, Indian assimilation, Indian boarding schools, Indian Relocation, Indian reservations, Indians and fire, Nixon on Indians, Termination, Termination act, termination policy
I thought about this as the president rampaged against the “garbage” people and country of Somalia. When he asked why we couldn’t get more people from Norway, Sweden, or Denmark. And a year ago, when he and the Veep went on about Haitian immigrants eating pets in...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 23, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, American Indian history, BIA, bureau of Indian Affairs, Deb Haaland, Joe Biden, john echohawk, NARF, Native News Online
For all his faults, and the sputtering end to his tenure as President, Joe Biden, with the help of his strong Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, has been a big and positive presence in Indian Country. In the last flurry of pardons and commutations, Biden sent...
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 | Aug 23, 2021 | Alvin Josephy, bureau of Indian Affairs, Deb Haaland, Jaime Pinkham, Richard Nixon, Termination, termination policy, White paper
Chuck Sams, Jaime Pinkham, and Deb Haaland Federal Government appointments were my good news last week. It turns out I stopped short in my research into what is going on in the Biden Administration, and made an error regarding government agencies at the same time....
