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 | Apr 13, 2023 | California, catholic indian missions, Catholicism, Western History, whitman, Whitman massacre
It would be easy now to pile on the Catholic Church—especially its hierarchy. The Vatican’s recent “repudiation” of the Doctrine of Discovery has been followed by the Maryland Attorney General’s announcement of “staggering sexual abuse” by church officials in his...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 19, 2022 | Alvin Josephy, California, Corps of Discovery, Mexican American War, Mexicans, Mexico, Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
In the new Smithsonian Magazine: “South to the Promised Land,” the “other” Underground Railroad, the one that went overland and across the Rio Grande to Mexico. Mexico won its independence in 1821. And, fatefully, soon opened its doors to Anglo-American settlers in...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 4, 2016 | California, Crystal Geyser, Mt. Shasta, Roseburg Forest Products, Standing Rock, Weed, Winnemem Wintu
Standing Rock ProtestThe Standing Rock Sioux and representatives from 280 North American Indian tribes, joined by Natives from Ecuador and Hawaii, have taken a stand in the Dakotas against oil companies and for water. Water, I imagine, will be increasingly in the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 1, 2016 | California, Colorado, joint occupancy, Mestizo, Mexican, Oregon Country, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Only Louisiana Purchase & Alaska were larger additionsEarlier this week, a Library visitor talked about her “roots”: specifically about a grandmother who was Apache and Mexican. At this point her proud, and very non-Indian or Mexican looking husband chimed in:...
