by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 12, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, Boldt decision, Isaac Stevens, Jr.
Yesterday was Superbowl Sunday—and a fine game it was. Congrats to the Chiefs! Today is Abe Lincoln’s birthday, which we celebrated separately until we bundled him with Washington and made it Presidents’ Day. Today is also the fiftieth anniversary of the Boldt...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2023 | Elliott West, General Howard, General Miles, Indian history, Indian Horse, Indian wars, Isaac Stevens, Joseph, Joseph Band, Lewis and Clark, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce War
Elliot West’s “The Last Indian War” was published in 2009, so it has been around. I’d not read it, but it was handy and I needed to check a date or name, so picked it up. And read a page or two. And decided I should read it. Read it because what West does is put the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 15, 2021 | Isaac Stevens, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Tribe, plateau tribes, Walla walla treaty
It’s grasshopper season, which in my time and place means mild annoyance at the invading insects and watching the cat play with and eat them. I’ve never seen a real grasshopper devastation, what is called a “plague of locusts,” what God told Moses to deliver to the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 27, 2021 | Chief Joseph, Indian treaties, Isaac Stevens, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Walla walla treaty, Wallowa, Wallowa Country, Wallowas, walwa’ma
Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Ground is Bette Lynch Husted’s memoir of growing up on a dirt-poor, white, family farm in Nez Perce Indian country in Idaho. Their meagre plot had once—and long—been Indian country. Nez Perce Reservation lands were reduced by 90...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 6, 2014 | Isaac Stevens, northern rail route, Pugent Sound, Rail routes West. Pacific railroads, railroad survey
Students in my OSU class in La Grande were asked to from groups of two or three, pick a crop or animal now grown commercially in the Northwest, and make short oral presentations explaining their subjects’ botanical or biological and geographical roots, and then follow...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 22, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Civil War, Governor Stevens, Isaac Stevens, Mexican American War, Nez Perce treaty, Walla walla treaty
Isaac Stevens is known in the region as the architect of the 1855 treaties that created the Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Yakima reservations. He was Governor of the Washington Territory, which made him the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and, along with his Oregon...
