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 | Aug 27, 2021 | Beth Piatote, Birchbark Books, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, Minnesota Indians, Momaday, Philip Deloria, Sherman Alexie, White Earth Reservation
Our number one Josephy Library volunteer, Elnora Cameron, just returned from a trip across the North, and into the Midwest. She spent a few hours in Louise Erdrich’s Minneapolis bookstore, Birchbark Books (https://birchbarkbooks.com), and came back with a very...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 25, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Bear River Massacre, Chivington, Civil War In the West, Colonel Patrick Conner, Minnesota Indians, New Ulm, Sand Creek Massacre
From the Pequot War forward, Alvin Josephy wrote in a 1979 article in The Indian Historian, Whites gave the Native Americans three options. The first was that they could stop being Indians and turn themselves into Whites. They would have their hair cut, wear...
