by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 17, 2026 | African Americans, Alvin Josephy, American Indian history, assimilation, bureau of Indian Affairs, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Depression, Donald Trump, Eisenhower, expulsions, German immigrants, ICE, immigration, Indian assimilation, Indian boarding schools, Indian Relocation, Indian reservations, Indians and fire, Nixon on Indians, Termination, Termination act, termination policy
I thought about this as the president rampaged against the “garbage” people and country of Somalia. When he asked why we couldn’t get more people from Norway, Sweden, or Denmark. And a year ago, when he and the Veep went on about Haitian immigrants eating pets in...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 20, 2025 | Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Movement, martin luther king, Peace Corps, Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam, Vietnam legacy
In a brief essay in Sunday’s (January 19) Washington Post, Jonathan Eig, author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography, writes: “We can begin by remembering that, until his death in 1968, King had never gained the approval of most White...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 19, 2015 | AIM, Alice Fletcher, Alvin Josephy, Civil Rights Movement, edward curtis, Indian assimilation, Indian genocide, martin luther king, MLK, NARF, NCAAP, NCAI
I remember Alvin Josephy saying many times that the white liberals who had joined the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King did not understand the Indian situation. To paraphrase him, “As the Civil Rights movement gained strength and won some victories, white liberals...
