by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 4, 2023 | Carlisle Institute, Dawes Act, Fourth of July
Maybe every holiday has its double. Christmas falls on or near the Winter Solstice, when Scandinavian pagans burned a yule log to symbolize the return of the sun, and pre-Christian Romans celebrated the sun’s return with a holiday honoring the God Saturn. That...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 2, 2021 | Albert Andrews, Chief Joseph, Fourth of July, Nespelem, Nez Perce, Nez Perce stories, Nez Perce War
I’ve written before about how Indians, and especially the Nez Perce exiles on the Colville Reservation, used the holiday as a day to bring out drums, regalia, and songs that had been suppressed in the 1880s rush to assimilation. In an exhibit two years ago on “Nez...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 28, 2019 | Albert Andrews, Chief Joseph, Colville Reservation, Fourth of July, Nez Perce, Redstar
I turn over this blogpost to Nez Perce elder and friend Albert Andrews Redstar. Albert is a descendent of the walwama band of Nez Perce who were not allowed to return to their Wallowa Homeland, and have been in exile on the Colville Reservation since their 1885 return...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 3, 2017 | Fourth of July, Indian Religious Crimes Code, Lewiston Tribune, Nez Perce Tribe
Thinking about this national holiday…This article was published in the July 3, 1904, edition of the Lewiston Tribune—and reprinted in today’s edition of the same paper.“Sub-Chief Philip McFarland of the Nez Perce tribe, was in the city yesterday accompanied by...
