by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 23, 2024 | catholic indian missions, Doctrine of Discovery, indigenous americans, Indigenous Continent, infectious diseases, Jefferson, Jill Lepore, Native American diseases, Native Americans, Native revival
I’m only 107 pages into Ned Blackhawks new book, The Rediscovery of America, and am already taken with an entirely new approach to American history. I’ve read Jill Lepore’s These Truths, and found it fact-filled, well written, and engaging, but, in the end, I found it...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 2, 2023 | catholic indian missions, Henry Spalding, Hudson’s Bay Company, Louisiana Purchase, Metis, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
I’m not a Catholic, and not an anti-Catholic. And I won’t whitewash the many heinous crimes of boarding schools and deviant priests. But, given that, I see a strong bent of anti-Catholicism in our history. The result of a strong current of Anglo-American Protestant...
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 | May 24, 2022 | Boy Scouts, catholic indian missions, Deb Haaland, demise of buffalo, Sexual abuse
What do we make of it, the long and sickening stories of abuse of Indian children in boarding schools in Canada and our own country? How can men—mostly men, but some women too—have done these things to children? My friends raised in California Catholic schools laugh...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 19, 2013 | catholic indian missions, Catholic Ladder, Eliza Spalding, father point, Flatheads, Henry Spalding, Jesuit mission montana, Lapwai, oregon historical quarterly, quipo, Whitman massacre
For whatever reason—maybe the wonderful cover photo—I have kept the Spring 1996 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly by my bed, and pick it up from time to time to look at the fine drawings and paintings of Father Nicolas Point, and to follow those first Jesuits...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 5, 2013 | Black robes, catholic indian missions, Father Desmet, Josephy Library, nicolas point, oregon historical quarterly
Father Pierre-Jean De Smet One of the great pleasures of being in a library (or a bookstore, where I spent a dozen wonderful years) is browsing. Your eyes scan shelves not with anything particular in mind, but with a lifetime of general interests and a number of...
