by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 24, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, Bobbie Conner, Deb Haaland, Debra Earling, Fishtrap, Nez Perce Homeland
I have been a little overwhelmed this week. First, remembering Alvin Josephy. His voice from Iwo Jima, 1945, on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition lit up my computer and cell phone screens with messages from across the country. I listened, played it for others,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 23, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, American Indian history, BIA, bureau of Indian Affairs, Deb Haaland, Joe Biden, john echohawk, NARF, Native News Online
For all his faults, and the sputtering end to his tenure as President, Joe Biden, with the help of his strong Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, has been a big and positive presence in Indian Country. In the last flurry of pardons and commutations, Biden sent...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2024 | Braiding Sweetgrass, Chuck Sams, condor, Deb Haaland, Indian country, Indian history, Joseph Canyon, Klamath, Native revival, Ned Blackhawk, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Philip J. Deloria, White Earth Reservation, Yurok
I thought I should follow up the last blog post, a musing—and hope—that there will be Natives sprinkled across government no matter the new regime. And I should have added that the sprinkling will be in local and state as well as the national government, and that the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 18, 2024 | Deb Haaland, Indian country, Indian genocide, Levi Rickert, Malerba, Native News Online
President Biden, with Secretary of the Interior’s Deb Haaland at his side, has been, in the words of Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), the founder, publisher and editor of Native News Online, the “best American President” for Native America and Native...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 29, 2024 | Deb Haaland, Indian country, Joe Biden, longhouse, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Homeland
I hope everyone saw President Biden’s passionate apology to Native people for the awful, almost 100-year, practice of boarding schools. They were another misguided attempt to deal with what became known as “the Indian problem.” Which might be translated as removing...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 1, 2024 | Chuck Sams, Deb Haaland, Jaime Pinkham, Joe Biden, Winnebago
I have mentioned Deb Haaland and her heroic work on behalf of US Tribes and Tribal people on a few blog posts—not enough praise, I’m sure, but I try. But now, as President Biden leaves the stage and the world begins to assess his impact on US history and politics,...
