by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 13, 2023 | American Indian history, American Indian languages, American Indians, edward curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, North American Indian, Tim Egan
The Josephy Library has been gifted an amazing set of books, Edward S. Curtiss’ THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE EDITION. This is a reprint of the original work done over 30 years at the beginning of the 20th century by the famous photographer. The...
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 | Jan 19, 2015 | AIM, Alice Fletcher, Alvin Josephy, Civil Rights Movement, edward curtis, Indian assimilation, Indian genocide, martin luther king, MLK, NARF, NCAAP, NCAI
I remember Alvin Josephy saying many times that the white liberals who had joined the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King did not understand the Indian situation. To paraphrase him, “As the Civil Rights movement gained strength and won some victories, white liberals...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 6, 2013 | Custer, edward curtis, Little Big Hole, North American Indian, Shadow Catcher, Tim Egan, vanishing Indian
The name came to Edward S. Curtis from Indians, who were the subject of his life work—a twenty volume study in words and pictures of The North American Indian. The title of Tim Egan’s fascinating new biography is Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: the Epic Life and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 26, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, caribbean indians, christopher columbus, edward curtis, john white, noble savage, rousseau, Trail of Tears, vanishing Indian, vanishing race
Relationships between European immigrants and indigenous people in the Americas have been complicated from the beginning. Columbus and his henchmen squeezed the Caribbeans of gold, enslaved them, annihilated some tribes, and took the case of indigenous...
