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 | Jul 25, 2013 | Dakota Indians, Lakota, Minnesota Indian uprising, NYT editorial july 23, Pine Ridge, President Lincoln and Indians, Sioux, Wounded Knee
Alvin Josephy once noted that when the American Government wanted to show off our country to the world, it used images of Plains Indians, splendid in feathered headdresses and riding horses. It matched the image of Indians carried by most non-Indian Americans—omitting...
