by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 11, 2025 | Eisenhower, frybread, Gaza, Holocaust, Long Walk, Navajo
How can there be an argument about starvation in Gaza? If a tenth of the news account are not doctored, if a tenth of the videos of people running and stumbling—and in some cases dying—as food aid is dropped in parachuted bundles from planes are true, Gaza is a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 11, 2023 | fry bread, frybread, Indian diet, Indian survival
A few days ago, I wrote that we might look to what is happening in Indian Country in the US as a model for what might happen in Gaza-Israel today. How we could retrieve old history, acknowledge past errors, and learn from those we had not listened to in the past going...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 14, 2020 | Code Talker, COVID-19, frybread, Kit Carson, Long Walk, Navajo, vanishing Indian
“If Navajo Nation were its own state, it would have the highest per-capita rate of confirmed positive coronavirus cases in the country, behind only New York.” (PBS News Hour) As of today—May 14, 2020, at 2:45 p.m. Pacific Time, 3,392 of its 356,890 citizens have...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 20, 2013 | demise of buffalo, frybread, Kit Carson, Long Walk, Navajo Long Walk, Removal Act of 1830
We went to Tamkaliks—the powwow in Wallowa—last night, and of course had to have a piece of frybread. As I watched one woman stretching dough and plopping it into two grease-filled cast iron pots, another woman turn it in the oil, and two men—father and son, it looked...
