by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 27, 2024 | African Americans, colonialism, Indian history, indigenous americans, Israel, Ta Nehisi
In his new book, The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates visits three places: Dakar in Senegal, West Africa, which has become a place of pilgrimage for African-Americans tracing slave ancestry; to Columbia, South Carolina, where a previous book of his has been banned, and where...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 23, 2024 | catholic indian missions, Doctrine of Discovery, indigenous americans, Indigenous Continent, infectious diseases, Jefferson, Jill Lepore, Native American diseases, Native Americans, Native revival
I’m only 107 pages into Ned Blackhawks new book, The Rediscovery of America, and am already taken with an entirely new approach to American history. I’ve read Jill Lepore’s These Truths, and found it fact-filled, well written, and engaging, but, in the end, I found it...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 13, 2024 | Indian population, indigenous americans, Indigenous Continent, Indigenous population of America, infectious diseases, measles, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, whitman
The recent upsurge in measles cases in Florida and the US in general has doctors and public health officials scratching heads. Apparently, there is a big difference in infection rates when the percentage of children who receive the MMR—Measles, Mumps,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 11, 2022 | 1491, Alvin Josephy, American Indian languages, archeology, Bering Land Bridge, Charles Mann, Indian DNA, Indian population, indigenous americans, Indigenous population of America, Jennifer Raff, Kelp Highway
Several friends quickly sent me the NYTimes review of a new book on the old subject of human origins in the Americas. The book is ORIGIN: A Genetic History of the Americas, and the author is Jennifer Raff. According to the reviewer, Raff consulted the sciences of...
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 | Sep 21, 2015 | Afghanistan, american immigrants, expulsions, indigenous americans, Iraq, migrations, Ottomans, refugees, Romani, Syria
The pictures and stories of refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Germany and more bring a brilliant image of mass migration into sharp and heart tugging focus. At first look and sound it seems like something new, and the proximate causes—wars...
