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 12, 2020 | Carib, Columbian Exchange, Columbus, Columbus Day, Doctrine of Discovery, Jim Crow, slavery
“Columbus Day” was first celebrated by Italian-Americans in San Francisco in 1869, and worked its way into a national holiday in 1937. Those of us who went to school in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and probably through the 1990s and are not of Italian heritage, remember...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 10, 2020 | Alvin Josephy, Caribs, Chief Joseph, Columbus, ethnocentricity, George Floyd, Henry Luce, name “Indians”, Navajo Nation, Nez Perce, Patriot Chiefs, Time Magazine
Alvin Josephy passed away almost two decades ago, but time and again, during this coronavirus/Black Lives crisis, I have heard him shout in my ear that when our history books don’t lie about Indians, they ignore them.When the NYT sends a reporter to the Navajo Nation...
