by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 27, 2023 | Alvin Josephy, Crazy Horse, Custer, Custer Battlefield, Custer myth, Henry Luce, Life Magazine, Little Big Man
On Thursday night we watched a “rough cut” version of a documentary chronicling Alvin Josephy’s career as a historian of and advocate for Indians. Sean Cassidy, retired from Lewis-Clark State College, introduced the film, which he and fellow LC professor Patricia...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 10, 2020 | Alvin Josephy, Caribs, Chief Joseph, Columbus, ethnocentricity, George Floyd, Henry Luce, name “Indians”, Navajo Nation, Nez Perce, Patriot Chiefs, Time Magazine
Alvin Josephy passed away almost two decades ago, but time and again, during this coronavirus/Black Lives crisis, I have heard him shout in my ear that when our history books don’t lie about Indians, they ignore them.When the NYT sends a reporter to the Navajo Nation...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 19, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Custer, Custer myth, Henry Luce, Life Magazine, Ralph Graves
The July 2, 1971 issue of Life Magazine carried a story by Alvin Josephy called “The Custer Myth.” In the late 1960s, during the filming of “Little Big Man,” for which Alvin was a technical advisor, he took some Indian friends to see the Custer Battlefield,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 28, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Henry Luce, Mossadegh, Time Magazine
“You don’t know what it was like to work for Henry Luce!” Alvin blurted, and ran from the room to fetch an old folder. Alvin, Betty, daughter Allison and I were in the Josephy family living room in Greenwich, looking at home movies which had been transferred to a VCR...
