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 | Aug 5, 2022 | 1493 papal bull, Catholicism, Doctrine of Discovery, First Nations, pope francis
Years ago, when I knew much less of the Indian story in the Pacific Northwest, I had an informal Nez Perce history class here at the Josephy Center. A dozen of us were on the balcony one day when Tamastslikt director Bobbie Conner and her mother came in the door. I...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 2, 2021 | Bison Books, Catholicism, Manifest Destiny, Marcus Whitman, Reverend Spalding, smallpox epidemic of 1780s, spalding, whitman
My last rambling blog post tried to link missionaries Whitman and Spalding, Catholic and anti-Catholic Northwesterners, Yale historians, Manifest Destiny, the Fur Trade, Whitman College and Bison Books into a tidy essay on history and historiography. I could have done...
