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 | Jul 11, 2021 | Custer, Custer myth, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Tim Egan
June marked the 145th anniversary of Custer’s debacle at the Little Big Horn. Custer’s death as a hero fighting for white dominance of the Plains against savage and hostile Indians contributed to the increased military pressure that ultimately did clear the West for...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 2, 2017 | American Indian Magazine, Custer, Hollow Horn Bear, Ken Burns, NMAI, Plymouth colony, Pontiac
Hollow Horn Bear–1923 US Postage StampI’ve been a big fan of Ken Burns’ documentaries—like many I watched the Civil War series as it came out; like many (though not as many) watched “Baseball” explore the post Civil War Civil Rights journey; and I caught most of...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 7, 2017 | Custer, Lakota, Nez Perce, Old Joseph, President Grant, Presidential lies, Sioux, Smithsonian Magazine, Treaty of 1855, Ulysses S. Grant
Which president, which time?President Ulysses S. GrantIndian trails of tears are littered with Presidential lies. We could pick almost any one, but why not take the hero of the Civil War and the man on the $50 bill. He had some interesting dealings with the Nez Perce,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 14, 2016 | Alvin Josephy, Custer, Dakota Access, Kevin Cramer, Little Big Hole, Little Big Man, Sioux, Standing Rock, Wounded Knee
There’s no word from Standing Rock in the New York Times or on CNN today. Indians slip into the national news on occasion—and then, on most occasions, slip out as quickly. Both CNN and MSNBC did report yesterday about an oil spill from another pipeline just three...
