by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2023 | Elliott West, General Howard, General Miles, Indian history, Indian Horse, Indian wars, Isaac Stevens, Joseph, Joseph Band, Lewis and Clark, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce War
Elliot West’s “The Last Indian War” was published in 2009, so it has been around. I’d not read it, but it was handy and I needed to check a date or name, so picked it up. And read a page or two. And decided I should read it. Read it because what West does is put the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 31, 2022 | baseball, Lewis and Clark, Marcus Whitman, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Oregon Trail
I watched all 8 hours of Ken Burns’ recently released “Muhammad Ali”; good, but maybe a bit too long. And it reminded me that I had also watched “Jackie Robinson” and “Jack Johnson,” and all 18 innings of “Baseball.” Baseball was glorious and my favorite; it told the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 17, 2017 | Allen Pinkham, Bob Chenoweth, Dr. Loren Davis, dugout canoe, Lewis and Clark, Nez Perce Fisheries, Nez Perce National Park, Wallowology
Photo by Edward Sheriff Curtis of Nez Perce Dugout Canoe A couple of summers ago Allen Pinkham Jr. was here at the Josephy Center teaching workshops. He did a few days of beading and a few making drums with a handful of people interested in the crafts and the Nez...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 15, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Bobbie Conner, Chief Joseph, Grace Bartlett, Lewis and Clark, Nez Perce, Nez Perce National Park, Wallowa
A few hundred Nez Perce Indians called this Valley home for thousands of years. They called themselves Nimipu (“the people”) and identified with this place, their families, their band and its headmen (Young Joseph, Old Joseph, Wal-lam-wat-kain, and on and on) more...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 10, 2014 | Allen Pinkham, Alvin Josephy, Corps of Discovery, Lewis and Clark, Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce, Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes, McWhorter, Steve Evans, Undaunted Courage
Allen Pinkham and Steve EvansOn Wednesday night Allen Pinkham and Steve Evans gave the first of what we plan to be annual lectures in honor of Alvin Josephy. Their theme—following the title of their recently published book, Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce:...
