by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 2, 2020 | Chippewa, Fosston MN, Itasca State Park, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, White Earth Reservation
I’m not halfway through Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman—and I’m uncomfortable. Erdrich is Turtle Mountains Chippewa. The Turtle Mountain Reservation is about 200 miles due west of Fosston, Minnesota, where I was born and started growing up. Her book is set in the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 29, 2012 | Fosston MN, Indian boarding schools, Itasca State Park, Mn, Pine Ridge reservation, Thick Dark Fog, vanishing Indian, Walter Littlemoon, White Earth Reservation, Wild West Show
I am still haunted by the “Thick Dark Fog” that Walter Littlemoon described in the video I saw on Public Television last week. Walter was born the same year that I was, 1942, in Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I was born in Fosston,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 1, 2011 | Alvin Josephy, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Fishtrap, Itasca State Park, noble savage, vanishing Indian, White Earth Reservation, Winona LaDuke
Small world—and invisible Indians Winona LaDuke was at Winter Fishtrap this weekend. She is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg on the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota and a global activist on behalf of Indian rights and sustainable...
