by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 29, 2017 | Boldt decision, Dawes Act, Garrison Dam, Indian casinos, Kinzua dam, Klamath, Nixon on Indians, Standing Rock, Termination act, Trump tweets pipelineLLif
The election and the first days of a new and controversial Presidency have captured the news and national attention. For the most part, Standing Rock has slipped to back pages and Indian media websites, even as President Trump tweets and signs executive orders...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 28, 2016 | Alvin Josephy, Army Corps of Engineers, environmental community, Flint water, Garrison Dam, Kinzua dam, Portland water, Standing Rock
Later, alternate title: “First Lessons From Standing Rock”The late historian and activist on behalf of American Indians Alvin Josephy believed that Indians in America would solve the drug problem before others figured it out. “Indians,” he said “are still...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 8, 2016 | Alvin Josephy, Cornplanter, David Brower, Friends of the Earth, Garrison Dam, Kinzua dam, Pyramid Lake, Seneca, Sierra Club, Standing Rock
This before election results are in, knowing that one candidate thinks climate change is a hoax, and that neither candidate has acknowledged Indian efforts at stopping the Dakota Access pipeline—or, for that matter, having talked at all to Indians or about Indian...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 22, 2011 | Alvin Josephy, Cornplanter, Kinzua dam, Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Nation
Sorry for the long time between Josephy Library blog postings. Now that kids are back in school, I plan to get back with some kind of regularity!Did anyone hear the recent NPR interview with the Seneca Nation’s new president, Robert Odawi Porter? I had been digging...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 27, 2011 | Alvin Josephy, Black Mesa., Jack Loeffler, Kinzua dam, Seneca
This is from the transcript of an interview that Jack Loeffler did with Alvin in August 1995, File 3, page 37, 38, 40 in the Josephy Library at Fishtrap archives.Several times in the interview Alvin refers to subjects that he will or will not address in his memoir (A...
