by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 10, 2025 | Custer, Custer Battlefield, Custer myth, Lakota
In 1971, when Alvin Josephy wrote about the “Custer Myth” for Life Magazine, he included a photo of the mass burial at Wounded Knee in 1890, committed by the next generation of Custer’s 7th Cavalry. In a recent issue of Native News Online, Levi Rickert wrote about...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 11, 2024 | horses, Hudson’s Bay Company, infectious diseases, Lakota, Native revival, Navajo, Ned Blackhawk, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce War, North American Indian, Pacific Northwest Indians
I’ve written before about Ned Blackhawk’s outstanding book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. Here’s more. The title itself is revolutionary—“rediscovering” echoing and countering the decades of homage to Columbus for...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 6, 2022 | American Indian diet, Indian diet, Indian gardens, Indigenous cuisine, Kimmerer, Lakota, salmon, Squanto
It struck me first in the wake of the Vietnam War, when hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Laotian, Thai, and Cambodian refugees arrived in America—and began opening restaurants. Even then I thought back to small Mexican restaurants in 1950s Southern California, and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 7, 2017 | Custer, Lakota, Nez Perce, Old Joseph, President Grant, Presidential lies, Sioux, Smithsonian Magazine, Treaty of 1855, Ulysses S. Grant
Which president, which time?President Ulysses S. GrantIndian trails of tears are littered with Presidential lies. We could pick almost any one, but why not take the hero of the Civil War and the man on the $50 bill. He had some interesting dealings with the Nez Perce,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 25, 2013 | Dakota Indians, Lakota, Minnesota Indian uprising, NYT editorial july 23, Pine Ridge, President Lincoln and Indians, Sioux, Wounded Knee
Alvin Josephy once noted that when the American Government wanted to show off our country to the world, it used images of Plains Indians, splendid in feathered headdresses and riding horses. It matched the image of Indians carried by most non-Indian Americans—omitting...
