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 | Nov 16, 2024 | Antikoni, Autry Museum, Beth Piatote, Fishtrap, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce art, Nez Perce stories, Nez Perce War
That is the name of the play by Beth Piatote now playing in Los Angeles! This, from “People’s World”: “LOS ANGELES — Theatergoers are in for a very special occasion—a revelation, it’s not too excessive to say—if they will expand their horizons a bit and embrace a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 9, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, Deb Haaland, Fishtrap, Josephy Center, Josephy Library, Nez Perce Homeland, Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest, Uncategorized
I’m privileged, I tell visitors to the Josephy Center, to be at this place in this time, riding a wave of good feelings and sympathies for Native Americans. We see the Yuroks buying and rehabbing land in Northern California, managing for wild flora and fauna and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 11, 2019 | Antigone, Beth Piatote, Doug Hyde, Fishtrap, Haruo Aoki, Marcus Amerman, Nez Perce stories
Here’s a holiday book recommendation—a gift to yourself and then to pass on to others: The Beadworkers, by Beth Piatote.Cover art is beadwork by artist Marcus AmermanI got an early copy weeks ago, and sped through the poems and stories quickly, but for some...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 27, 2017 | David Grann, Elise Paschen, Fishtrap, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maria Tallchief, Oklahoma Indians, Osage Indians, osage murders, Sandra Osawa
Where to start?I just finished reading Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. I thought first about people I know—people of Osage blood—who are indeed “lucky to be here” in light of what happened in Osage County, Oklahoma in the first...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 5, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Fishtrap, Ivan Doig, Pacific Northwest Booksellers, Richard White
The Daily News OnlineI think it was the fall of 1977 or the spring of 1978. We had opened the Bookloft in Enterprise in late 1976, and were going to our first “trade show.” It was in a Seattle hotel, and there were tables and tables of books—books recently published...
