by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 19, 2022 | Alvin Josephy, California, Corps of Discovery, Mexican American War, Mexicans, Mexico, Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
In the new Smithsonian Magazine: “South to the Promised Land,” the “other” Underground Railroad, the one that went overland and across the Rio Grande to Mexico. Mexico won its independence in 1821. And, fatefully, soon opened its doors to Anglo-American settlers in...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 11, 2020 | African Americans, Ibram X. Kendi, Indian treaties, Indians, internment camps, Japanese-Americans, Latinx, Mexican American War, Reconstruction, Reparations, Republic of Texas, slavery, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Reparations—government payments or amends of some kind to the descendants of Black American slaves—are not a new idea, but the current Covid-19-BLM crisis has brought them back into conversation. I’ve been skeptical, wondering where Indians and Latinx would fit into...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 22, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Civil War, Governor Stevens, Isaac Stevens, Mexican American War, Nez Perce treaty, Walla walla treaty
Isaac Stevens is known in the region as the architect of the 1855 treaties that created the Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Yakima reservations. He was Governor of the Washington Territory, which made him the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and, along with his Oregon...
