by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 10, 2025 | Donation Land Act, homestead act, Indian removal, Morill Act
Before passage of the sixteenth amendment and the establishment of the income tax in 1913, federal government funding came from tariffs. That is the narrative of the day. But, once again, we seem to have forgotten the place of Native America in our Euro-American...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 18, 2014 | fur trade, homestead act, indentured servants, Luis Urrea, pre-emption act, railroads, refugees
At the Fishtrap Gathering this weekend, writer Luis Alberto Urrea talked about the border. He’d written a non-fiction book, The Devil’s Highway, about 26 from Vera Cruz who crossed the border in 2001—twelve made it, and fourteen died in the trying. The book was a...
