by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 21, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, California, California genocide, California Indians, California missions, Greg Saris, National Museum of American Indian, Peace Corps, Ursula Pike
Years ago, I reviewed a book by Ursula Pike, an enrolled Karuk Tribal member who grew up in Oregon and California and went into the Peace Corps. The book was An Indian among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir. One can imagine the quandaries and perplexities of a...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 31, 2017 | California genocide, Chief Joseph, Civil War, Daniel Sharfstein, forty acres and a mule, Freedmen’s Bureau, General Howard, Nez Perce War, Reconstruction, The Other Slavery
I don’t know where I first heard or read that history books are often more about the time they are written in than the time they are written about. Several new books on Indians, and specifically the Nez Perce, support the idea. O.O. Howard and Chief Joseph I’m only 80...
