by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 12, 2024 | Manifest Destiny, migrations, Minnesota, Minnesota Indian uprising, Minnesota Indians
My family doesn’t trace lineage to the Mayflower, played no roles in the Revolutionary War or the Civil War. And I don’t remember anyone referring to our grandparents and great grandparents as “migrants”; they were “immigrants,” people from specific European places...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 21, 2015 | Afghanistan, american immigrants, expulsions, indigenous americans, Iraq, migrations, Ottomans, refugees, Romani, Syria
The pictures and stories of refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Germany and more bring a brilliant image of mass migration into sharp and heart tugging focus. At first look and sound it seems like something new, and the proximate causes—wars...
