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 | Jul 11, 2021 | Custer, Custer myth, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Tim Egan
June marked the 145th anniversary of Custer’s debacle at the Little Big Horn. Custer’s death as a hero fighting for white dominance of the Plains against savage and hostile Indians contributed to the increased military pressure that ultimately did clear the West for...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 5, 2019 | assimilation, Chief Joseph, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Nez Perce
Joseph’s Last Visit, 1900. Photo by Frank ReavisThere were 50 photos in the recent Josephy Center exhibit of pre-WW II images from the Wallowa Country. Seven of the images feature Indians, and, it occurs to me, capture a great deal of white misunderstandings of and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 17, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, assimilation, Caroline Wasson Thomason, Dawes Act, Edward Sheriff Curtis, In the Wallowas, Nez Perce, termination policy, vanishing Indian, Wallowa Country
I’m again reading a book I read years ago—and again finding new meaning. Caroline Wasson Thomason was born in 1887 somewhere else, but grew up “Between the Sheeps” in Wallowa County. She married a teacher and lived for years in New York, where she wrote...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 15, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Chief Joseph, Chief Joseph statue, Christy Walton, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Georgia Bunn, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Valley Bronze foundry
We have a new statue of Chief Young Joseph, or Young Chief Joseph as he is now mostly called, on Main Street in our town of Joseph—the town is named after him of course. It’s all irony, as he was of course hounded out of here in the War of 1877, and not allowed to...
