by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 2, 2025 | Arab, Arab-Israeli War, Gaza, Indian reservations, Indian survival, Indian treaties, Indian wars, Israel
I started writing blog posts to carry on the work of my mentor, Alvin Josephy, who saidthat the true story of Native American history, and Native Americans in American history, needs to be told. Further, he wanted Indians to be telling it! That is happening, and I...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 13, 2025 | Gaza, Indian removal, Israel, Netanyahu, Nez Perce, Nez Perce National Park, Nez Perce War
In 1877, General O.O. Howard gave the Nez Perce 30 days to leave the Wallowa and get themselves to the much-reduced reservation at Lapwai in Idaho. Other “non-treaty” bands on the other side of the Snake River were given the same orders. There were killings of...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 21, 2025 | Gaza, Indian history, Israel, Netanyahu, Vietnam
In Monday’s news from Palestine, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Hamas is “willing to discuss a hostage deal only due to the fear that we intend to invade Gaza,” adding that “conquering Gaza City will lead to Hamas’...
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 | Jul 11, 2025 | Gaza, Hamas, Indian removal, Indian Territory, Indian treaties, John Marshall, Termination, Termination act
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the “Indian Removal Act,” which authorized the government to negotiate treaties with the remnants of all Eastern Tribes to purchase their lands and move them west of the Mississippi River. In a lawsuit brought by the educated...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 13, 2025 | Chief Joseph, Eisenhower, Gaza, genocide, Israel, Nez Perce, Omar El Akkad
When tourists look at our wall display at the Josephy Center that tells a very brief story of the walwa ma, or Joseph, Band of the Nez. Perce Indians, they often shake their heads and say something like “It’s terrible what we did to Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce.”...
