by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 6, 2023 | David Treuer, Dee Brown, edward curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Indian survival, Indians in unexpected places, Native American languages, Philip Deloria, Philip J. Deloria, Wounded Knee
There’s a new history book that is rattling across the best seller lists. It’s a collection of essays called Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past. There are 20 chapters on everything from “American Exceptionalism” to the “New...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 4, 2021 | Dee Brown, Indian history, Indian religion, Sioux, Sitting Bull, Trail of Tears
In the fall of 1971, just months into my life in the Wallowas, my mind muddled with the Peace Corps and Washington D.C. lives I’d only recently left, I got a copy of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee in the mail from Barb, my old Peace Corps partner. Her note said she was...
