by Rich Wandschneider | May 3, 2026 | Iran, Israel
I was born in 1942, just 10 months after Pearl Harbor and our entry into what would become known as World War II. Uncles were in the war. One died in the last months of the war in the Pacific; I knew Uncle Russell only from talk and pictures, one of him in his...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 17, 2026 | 1855 treaty, 1863 treaty, Allotment Act, american immigrants, American Indian history, assimilation, boarding schools, immigration, Indian history, Indian massacres, Indian removal, Indian reservations, Indian treaties, Indian wars, Indians, Iran, Israel, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty
The stock market is setting records at every mention of a cease fire in Gaza, Iran, or Lebanon, and as each ship crosses Hormuz. Sometimes there is disappointment, and the market briefly plunges, but it is ready to leap back at the next bit of good news. And the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 7, 2026 | Chief Joseph, Indigenous cuisine, Iran, Joseph Band, Nespelem, Nez Perce
I woke up this morning with a pit in my stomach, an ache for my friends, family, country, and indeed the world. And this after a wonderful weekend in Nespelem, Washington at a First Foods Feast with the walwa ma—sometimes called the “Joseph”—band of the Nez Perce...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 20, 2026 | assassinations, Haaretz, Iran, Israel
I am not an historian, but have read considerably in American, Native American, and Middle Eastern history. And I think the use of and dependence on assassination in war is a folly. Common sense and history tell us that when a leader is assassinated from the outside,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 6, 2025 | Henry Kissinger, Iran, Jimmy Carter, Uncategorized
These blog posts usually address Native American and local history; I try especially to trace the pre-contact history and culture, and the early and continuing relationships of Indians and non-Indians in the Wallowa Country. But I also try to keep blog followers aware...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 9, 2022 | Iran, Shah Riza Pahlavi, women’s rights
I have great memories of stern-looking, uniformed women guiding traffic at the center of Tehran’s busiest intersections on my month-long visit in 1968—they were human traffic signals. And fond memories too of beautiful, scantily clad Iranian women with their handsome...
