by Rich Wandschneider | May 26, 2022 | Jim Pepper, Julia Keefe, Mildred Bailey, Nez Perce Tribe, Nezpercians
Three years ago, we had a summer exhibit featuring Nez Perce music, from drummers and dancers of long ago to the “Nezpercians” and “Lollypop Six” jazz and dance bands of the early and mid-twentieth century. We gave a nod in that exhibit to a young Nez Perce jazz...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2012 | boarding schools, Chief Joseph, Jim Pepper, Josephy Library, Maria Tallchief, Nativetelecom, Nez Perce, Sandra Osawa, Smoke Signals, termination policy, Thick Dark Fog, Walter Littlemoon
I watched a film on PBS last night, “The Thick Dark Fog.” It is the story of a Lakota man named Walter Littlemoon and his struggle to reclaim his humanity, stolen from him at a boarding school as a five year old on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The man’s a poet—a simple...
