by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 18, 2022 | Chief Egan, Malheur, Paiute, University of Nebraska Press
We recently had the pleasure of having David Wilson at the Josephy Center to talk about his new book. Wilson is not a historian, not a writer of books–until this one. He was, in a long law career, a writer of law briefs. He told us that he had set out to write a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 29, 2016 | Access pipeline, Alvin Josephy, Bismarck, Bundy, Malheur, Standing Rock
Like many, I am distressed about recent events in North Dakota and Malheur. I agree with Bill McKibben that the pipeline’s original route, above Bismarck, N.D. was changed to a route away from the white power structure and to one that might endanger tribal people and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 11, 2016 | Greeley, Harney County, Klamath accord, Malheur, Paiute forestry, Pinchot
I first heard about “Paiute forestry” twelve or fifteen years ago, when we spent a Winter Fishtrap weekend at Wallowa Lake talking about fire. Paiute foresters were Westerners who had picked up on the Indian practice of regular, low level burning of forestlands to...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 28, 2016 | Alvin Josephy, Malheur, Nez Perce, Paiute, reservations
Yesterday, amid the blur of news stories from Burns and John Day about the confrontation between occupiers and law enforcement in this latest chapter of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation, there was an NPR story from Nevada. A reporter and a Paiute tribal member...
