by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 14, 2024 | Bobbie Conner, Columbus, Columbus Day, Columbus Day & Indigenous Peoples Day, Coyote Warrior, Doctrine of Discovery, Indian assimilation, Indian treaties, Indigenous Peoples Day, Jefferson, John Marshall, Justice Marshall, Paul VanDevelder, Raymond Cross
Once, years ago, we had a Nez Perce history discussion going on at the Josephy Center. Bobbie Conner, then and now director of Tamastslikt on the Umatilla Reservation, came in the door on another task. I greeted her from the balcony discussion group and announced that...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 9, 2023 | 1492, Columbus, Columbus Day, Columbus Day & Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, Philip Deloria, Philip J. Deloria
I and my peers grew up with Columbus Day, not a big holiday, unless you lived in an Italian neighborhood, but a middle of the run holiday that meant bank closures and a day off from school. There was little thinking about it—beyond hackneyed stereotypes of Columbus...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 13, 2019 | assimilation, Brent Staples, Columbus Day & Indigenous Peoples Day, How Italians became white, New York Times, President Harrison
Hang around and keep listening and you keep learning.For a long time it has struck me that North America and the United States, from the beginning of colonization, have been dominated by Anglo culture. I have said before that Slavs and Greeks, Italians and the Irish,...
