by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 18, 2024 | Deb Haaland, Indian country, Indian genocide, Levi Rickert, Malerba, Native News Online
President Biden, with Secretary of the Interior’s Deb Haaland at his side, has been, in the words of Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), the founder, publisher and editor of Native News Online, the “best American President” for Native America and Native...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 25, 2015 | Cahuilla, California Indians, California missions, Father Serra, Indian genocide, pope francis, Rupert Costo
Like many Americans—and people across the world—I have watched and listened to the new Pope with hope and wonder. A man of clerical power that extends over much of the world with Francis’s humility giving voice to the poor, the immigrant, the prisoner, is something...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 19, 2015 | AIM, Alice Fletcher, Alvin Josephy, Civil Rights Movement, edward curtis, Indian assimilation, Indian genocide, martin luther king, MLK, NARF, NCAAP, NCAI
I remember Alvin Josephy saying many times that the white liberals who had joined the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King did not understand the Indian situation. To paraphrase him, “As the Civil Rights movement gained strength and won some victories, white liberals...
