by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 24, 2025 | Code Talker
I will not add, or take away, a word from this piece in “Native News Online” this morning by Neely Bardwell On March 18, the flags of Arizona’s 22 tribal nations were removed from the Carl. T. Hayden VA Medical Center in central Phoenix and returned back...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 27, 2022 | African Americans, Allotment Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil War, Code Talker, colonialism, Dawes Act, Supreme Court, white supremacy
Men! And, yes mostly white men of Anglo descent, the ones who took Indian lands away with treaties and wars, lies, legislation, disease, and depleting food stocks, who brought the slaves and wrote the Constitution and engaged in a Civil War over Black men and women as...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 14, 2020 | Code Talker, COVID-19, frybread, Kit Carson, Long Walk, Navajo, vanishing Indian
“If Navajo Nation were its own state, it would have the highest per-capita rate of confirmed positive coronavirus cases in the country, behind only New York.” (PBS News Hour) As of today—May 14, 2020, at 2:45 p.m. Pacific Time, 3,392 of its 356,890 citizens have...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 28, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Chester Nez, Code Talker, Navajo, Patriot Chiefs, World War II, WW II in Pacific
The last of the original 29 World War II Navajo code-talkers, Chester Nez, passed just weeks ago at the age of 93. The cruel ironies in his story are many, but the greatest of them haunted Nez to the end: “All those years, telling you not to speak Navajo, and then to...
