by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 16, 2021 | Beth Piatote, Bobbie Conner, Indian Horse, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, Momaday, spalding, whitman, Whitman College
Here’s how I found my way to The Way to Rainy Mountain For the past few years, the Josephy Center has had a book group. It started with small, in-person meetings, and moved online with the coming of Covid. Our last book was Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 27, 2021 | Beth Piatote, Birchbark Books, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, Minnesota Indians, Momaday, Philip Deloria, Sherman Alexie, White Earth Reservation
Our number one Josephy Library volunteer, Elnora Cameron, just returned from a trip across the North, and into the Midwest. She spent a few hours in Louise Erdrich’s Minneapolis bookstore, Birchbark Books (https://birchbarkbooks.com), and came back with a very...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 6, 2021 | David McCullough, Ibram X. Kendi, Indian Horse, James Baldwin, Jill Lepore, Kent Nerburn, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, Nez Perce, Night Watchman, Richard Wagamese, These Truths
Turning the page is a common metaphor for beginning a new year—often implying that we are leaving what was unpleasant in the last year behind. There was plenty of unpleasant in 2020, but some good things happened too, sometimes in spite of or even as a result of the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 2, 2020 | Chippewa, Fosston MN, Itasca State Park, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, White Earth Reservation
I’m not halfway through Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman—and I’m uncomfortable. Erdrich is Turtle Mountains Chippewa. The Turtle Mountain Reservation is about 200 miles due west of Fosston, Minnesota, where I was born and started growing up. Her book is set in the...
