by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 14, 2024 | Bobbie Conner, Columbus, Columbus Day, Columbus Day & Indigenous Peoples Day, Coyote Warrior, Doctrine of Discovery, Indian assimilation, Indian treaties, Indigenous Peoples Day, Jefferson, John Marshall, Justice Marshall, Paul VanDevelder, Raymond Cross
Once, years ago, we had a Nez Perce history discussion going on at the Josephy Center. Bobbie Conner, then and now director of Tamastslikt on the Umatilla Reservation, came in the door on another task. I greeted her from the balcony discussion group and announced that...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 29, 2024 | American Indian history, General Allotment Act, Henry Spalding, Jefferson, Jefferson Bible, Jill Lepore, Manifest Destiny, Uncategorized
In the July-August 2024 issue of the Smithsonian magazine, in an article on “Mapping the Mississippi,” Boyce Uphold writes of Thomas Jefferson: “Jefferson had formed a vision for new territory west of the Appalachian Mountains. It would fuel the creation of an ‘empire...
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 | Jul 4, 2020 | Jefferson, Kristi Noem, Lincoln, Mt. Rushmore, President Trump, Sioux, South Dakota, T. Roosevelt, Washington
Amidst coronavirus and Black Lives Matter, President Trump has done what the news media and the public couldn’t seem to get to—bring attention to American Indians. Concocting something with the Republican governor of South Dakota, Trump is engineered a Fourth of July...
