by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 2, 2023 | catholic indian missions, Henry Spalding, Hudson’s Bay Company, Louisiana Purchase, Metis, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
I’m not a Catholic, and not an anti-Catholic. And I won’t whitewash the many heinous crimes of boarding schools and deviant priests. But, given that, I see a strong bent of anti-Catholicism in our history. The result of a strong current of Anglo-American Protestant...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 4, 2016 | Alvin Josephy, Louis Urrea, Metis, Peter Bowen, The Dying Grass, us census race, Warmth of other suns, William T. Vollman
2016 will not be the year that the population of the United States of America tilts from white—the year when adding up all the browns and blacks and anyone the U.S. Census counts as not-white becomes a bigger number than the number of those who check a box or are in...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 24, 2015 | Father Serra, Hudson’s Bay Company, Indian land tenure, John Jackson, Metis, Ray Cook, Rupert Costo
There is so much to say about my friend Ray Cook, the man who introduced me to Rupert Costo, the Jesuits, and Father Serra’s journey to sainthood. Ray passed away quietly in California, and, unfortunately, did not see the blog post he inspired—I think it would have...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 4, 2013 | Custer, david thompson, Hudson’s Bay Company, Louis Riel, Metis, Thomas King
Years and years ago, novelist Thomas King came to Fishtrap. Alvin Josephy had met him at a Sun Valley conference and recommended him as a reader and conversationalist. King ran for office in GuelphKing, tall, handsome, wearing a good white Stetson as I recall,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 25, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Anglo-American, Manifest Destiny, Metis, Pacific Northwest History Conference, Treaty of Ghent
I was thinking about this blog post on my morning bike ride, and out of nowhere came a remark made by an old professor of mine about 50 years ago—“the United States has never been a melting pot, unless you think of it as all melting towards Anglo-American.” They are...
