by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 13, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, Arab, Arab-Israeli War, Dawes Act, Diane Josephy Peavey, Donald Trump, Gaza, Indian land tenure, Netanyahu, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Tamastslikt, Umatilla, Umatilla Confederated Tribes, umatilla reservation, Walla Walla Indians, Walla walla treaty
My friend, Diane Josephy Peavey, has made several trips to Palestine over the last 20 years. She had it in mind years ago to write a book comparing the plight of the Palestinian Arabs (her hosts were most often Christian Arabs) to that of American Indians. It would...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 4, 2024 | Coyote Warrior, Doctrine of Discovery, Indian land tenure, Indian treaties, June Lorenzo, Justice Marshall
This past Monday the Josephy Center was privileged to host Peacemaker Dr. June Lorenzo for a talk on Community Peace and Justice. Dr. Lorenzo, a member of the Laguna Pueblo and Diné (Navajo Nation), is an attorney and human rights advocate who holds both a JD and a...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 28, 2024 | David McCullough, George Washington, Indian assimilation, Indian history, Indian land tenure, Indian removal, Indian survival, Indian treaties, Indian wars, Jill Lepore, Ned Blackhawk, Sara Koenig, The Rediscovery of America, whitman, Whitman massacre
There are new revelations on every page in Ned Blackhawk’s ambitious The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. In putting Indians back into the history of the country, rather than treating the trials and tribulations of Indian...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 15, 2023 | BLM, Deb Haaland, Indian land tenure, Nez Perce Tribe, Roger Amerman, Uncategorized, US Forest Service
I received a response to my blog post about Deb Haaland and cooperative management of government lands. The writer was Roger Amerman, currently “USFS Native American Outreach and Recruitment Specialist” on the Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forests. Roger is...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 12, 2021 | Indian history, Indian land tenure, Yurok
The Yurok Indians in Northern California, decimated by the 1840s gold rush and white settlement, lost or swallowed up by timber companies and Federal agencies and actions, regained federal recognition and 5,000 acres—or one percent—of their traditional land base in...
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...
