by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 9, 2025 | Columbia River, Indian removal, Indian survival, Indian Territory, Indian treaties, John Marshall, Klamath, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Pacific Northwest, salmon, Snake River, Snake River dams, Supreme Court
I just watched the Washington Post’s account of the 15 young tribal members who kayaked the 310-mile length of the Klamath River this summer. They had trained hard, become excellent paddlers, readying themselves as the river was readying itself for them; the river...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 16, 2025 | Klamath, Nez Perce, Shannon Wheeler, Snake River, Snake River dams, Yurok
In an age of rapid and vast migrations, political polarization, and uncertain and severe weather events, American Indians seem to be a calm in the middle of many storms. Maybe indigenous peoples in other countries sit at their own centers, with the same continental...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2024 | Braiding Sweetgrass, Chuck Sams, condor, Deb Haaland, Indian country, Indian history, Joseph Canyon, Klamath, Native revival, Ned Blackhawk, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Philip J. Deloria, White Earth Reservation, Yurok
I thought I should follow up the last blog post, a musing—and hope—that there will be Natives sprinkled across government no matter the new regime. And I should have added that the sprinkling will be in local and state as well as the national government, and that the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 31, 2023 | dams, Klamath, Snake River dams, Tulare Lake
Tulare Lake in California was once America’s largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. Over decades, it had been completely drained and turned into extensive farmland, the waters that once fed it diverted in other directions for irrigation and city drinking....
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 20, 2013 | 1855 treaty, Klamath, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Nez Perce War, termination policy, tribal termination
It’s an old saw—you learn by teaching. This fall I am teaching a class for the Oregon State University Ag program on the Eastern Oregon U campus in La Grande. The class is “Ecosystems and Pacific Northwest Tribes.” We looked briefly at the pre-Columbian Americas...
