by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 10, 2025 | Custer, Custer Battlefield, Custer myth, Lakota
In 1971, when Alvin Josephy wrote about the “Custer Myth” for Life Magazine, he included a photo of the mass burial at Wounded Knee in 1890, committed by the next generation of Custer’s 7th Cavalry. In a recent issue of Native News Online, Levi Rickert wrote about...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 27, 2023 | Alvin Josephy, Crazy Horse, Custer, Custer Battlefield, Custer myth, Henry Luce, Life Magazine, Little Big Man
On Thursday night we watched a “rough cut” version of a documentary chronicling Alvin Josephy’s career as a historian of and advocate for Indians. Sean Cassidy, retired from Lewis-Clark State College, introduced the film, which he and fellow LC professor Patricia...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 8, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Custer Battlefield, Dakota Access, Dave Archambault, Julie Turkewitz, Little Big Man, Standing Rock, Standing Rock Sioux, Wounded Knee
November- Reuters NewsIn a brief story in the New York Times this morning, reporter Julie Turkewitz tells us that the Army has approved construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. It took Robert Speer, the acting secretary of the Army, two weeks—from the time of...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 14, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Crazy Horse, Custer Battlefield, Josephy Library intern, Life Magazine, Time Magazine
Dave Struthers, a recent graduate of Stanford University from Sacramento, California, is our new Josephy Library intern. He started yesterday, and we started him tracking down the Time Magazine “color” spreads that Alvin did from 1951-61. We have about a dozen old...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 15, 2011 | 1492, Alvin Josephy, Custer Battlefield, pre-columbian america, Wounded Knee
Alvin Josephy died in 2005. I read something that he wrote—or that was written to or about him—almost every day. And I am continually amazed by what he said and when and where he said it. In Life Magazine in 1971, Josephy wrote that the US government interpreters were...
