by Rich Wandschneider | May 31, 2021 | Cahuilla, California Indians, Indian history, Indian Horse, Indians
The descriptions of a church-run Canadian boarding school for Indians in Richard Wagamese’s brilliant novel, Indian Horse, were brutal. The book was published in 2012; a movie released in 2017. In today’s news stories, echoing Wagamese’s book, a mass grave containing...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 25, 2015 | Cahuilla, California Indians, California missions, Father Serra, Indian genocide, pope francis, Rupert Costo
Like many Americans—and people across the world—I have watched and listened to the new Pope with hope and wonder. A man of clerical power that extends over much of the world with Francis’s humility giving voice to the poor, the immigrant, the prisoner, is something...
