by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 22, 2025 | birthright citizneship, Bobbie Conner, Dawes Act, Doctrine of Discovery, John Marshall
As we close out another year and try to keep up with the activist flurries of the executive branch, the sluggishness of the legislative branch, and the fitful actions—and inactions—of the judicial branch, looking to Native America can provide comfort. After all, for...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 13, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, Arab, Arab-Israeli War, Dawes Act, Diane Josephy Peavey, Donald Trump, Gaza, Indian land tenure, Netanyahu, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Tamastslikt, Umatilla, Umatilla Confederated Tribes, umatilla reservation, Walla Walla Indians, Walla walla treaty
My friend, Diane Josephy Peavey, has made several trips to Palestine over the last 20 years. She had it in mind years ago to write a book comparing the plight of the Palestinian Arabs (her hosts were most often Christian Arabs) to that of American Indians. It would...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 4, 2023 | Carlisle Institute, Dawes Act, Fourth of July
Maybe every holiday has its double. Christmas falls on or near the Winter Solstice, when Scandinavian pagans burned a yule log to symbolize the return of the sun, and pre-Christian Romans celebrated the sun’s return with a holiday honoring the God Saturn. That...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 16, 2023 | Allotment Act, Dawes Act, Umatilla, Umatilla Confederated Tribes, umatilla reservation
In 1855, at the treaty negotiations in Walla Walla, the Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla peoples were left a reservation of 245,699 acres, and the ability to hunt, fish, and gather in “usual and accustomed places” off the reservation lands. Over a century of...
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 | Aug 22, 2018 | Braceros, Chinese railroad workers, Dawes Act, indentured servants, Indian boarding schools, Indian Relocation, picture brides, slave markets, slavery, Termination
One of the earliest stories of white-Indian interaction in North America is that of Squanto, a Patuxet Indian taken captive by English explorer Thomas Hunt in 1614 and sold as a slave in Spain. Tisquantum—his real name—escaped and made his way back to Cape Cod through...
