by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 29, 2024 | Deb Haaland, Indian country, Joe Biden, longhouse, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Homeland
I hope everyone saw President Biden’s passionate apology to Native people for the awful, almost 100-year, practice of boarding schools. They were another misguided attempt to deal with what became known as “the Indian problem.” Which might be translated as removing...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 2, 2016 | Colville tribes, Lapwai, Long house, longhouse, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Tribe, Tamkaliks, Umatilla Confederated Tribes, Wallowa
Few Indians live in the Wallowa Country now, but Indians come here every year—maybe, even through war and exile, some few have always made their ways here to hunt and gather foods and be in this place. Now, they come to run Nez Perce Fisheries, to manage a small piece...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 10, 2016 | Chief Joseph, Homeland Project, Indian religion, Joseph Band, longhouse, Nez Perce, Plateau Indian, seven drums, Wallowa
We’ve been talking about building a Longhouse on the grounds of the Nez Perce Homeland Project (Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center, Inc. is the official name of the organization) outside the town of Wallowa for many years. I can’t remember exactly how...
