by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 14, 2023 | David Remnick, Gaza, Haaretz, Indan history, Indian wars, Nez Perce War, Wounded Knee
David Remnick of the “New Yorker” calls it “intolerable.” The last few weeks in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank have stretched us for words to describe the awful goings on. We mostly agree that the initial Hamas invasion of Israel and killing of innocents was...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 4, 2022 | abortion, Indan history, Native Americans, Originalism, Second amendment, Thomas Jefferson
My senior year of college I had a roommate, a graduate student in physics, who belonged to a small Christian denomination that held that musical instruments should not be played in church. No guitars or tambourines, no pianos or organs. These things were not mentioned...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 9, 2021 | Black Hills, David Treuer, Indan history, Indian boarding schools, Indian land tenure, Indian reservations, Indian treaties, Mount Rushmore
It’s complicated—but here are some first thoughts: In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates made the argument for reparations to the descendants of African-American slaves in The Atlantic Magazine. The country, he said, would never be “whole” until it came to terms with the bad...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 8, 2021 | 1492, Helper t-cells, HLA, immunity, Indan history, Indian history, indigenous americans, Indigenous population of America, infectious diseases
Since the beginning of this pandemic, I have been struck by the outsized impact of Covid-19 on American Indians, and by the lack of serious discussion of their apparent special vulnerability to the disease. The stories we read and hear are about bad water and poor...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 14, 2012 | Age of Jackson, Alvany Plan, Benjamin Franklin, David McCullough, Indan history, Iroquis Legue, John Adams, Trail of Tears
I had been reading David McCullough’s book, John Adams, with great pleasure. My knowledge of colonial times and the birth of the nation is old and limited, so the exploration of the lives and careers of Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Jay, Madison, Hamilton, and all of...
