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 | Oct 14, 2024 | Bobbie Conner, Columbus, Columbus Day, Columbus Day & Indigenous Peoples Day, Coyote Warrior, Doctrine of Discovery, Indian assimilation, Indian treaties, Indigenous Peoples Day, Jefferson, John Marshall, Justice Marshall, Paul VanDevelder, Raymond Cross
Once, years ago, we had a Nez Perce history discussion going on at the Josephy Center. Bobbie Conner, then and now director of Tamastslikt on the Umatilla Reservation, came in the door on another task. I greeted her from the balcony discussion group and announced that...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 4, 2024 | Coyote Warrior, Doctrine of Discovery, Indian land tenure, Indian treaties, June Lorenzo, Justice Marshall
This past Monday the Josephy Center was privileged to host Peacemaker Dr. June Lorenzo for a talk on Community Peace and Justice. Dr. Lorenzo, a member of the Laguna Pueblo and Diné (Navajo Nation), is an attorney and human rights advocate who holds both a JD and a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 23, 2024 | catholic indian missions, Doctrine of Discovery, indigenous americans, Indigenous Continent, infectious diseases, Jefferson, Jill Lepore, Native American diseases, Native Americans, Native revival
I’m only 107 pages into Ned Blackhawks new book, The Rediscovery of America, and am already taken with an entirely new approach to American history. I’ve read Jill Lepore’s These Truths, and found it fact-filled, well written, and engaging, but, in the end, I found it...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 21, 2023 | Dakota Access, Doctrine of Discovery, Sarah Augustine, Suriname, Wayana
Katy Nesbit, writer and now cleric at the local Episcopal church, dropped a book off recently, just a few days after the Vatican rescinded its Doctrine of Discovery. I had not thought much about next steps, about how we might unravel what centuries of this obscure but...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 4, 2023 | 1493 papal bull, Doctrine of Discovery
I have written and spoken about the impact of the “Doctrine of Discovery” on Native American affairs for years. This “new” news from the Vatican is astounding. I think that, for the most part, the Vatican and the Catholics in general have tried to forget this piece of...
