by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 2, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, Bill Kittredge, James Welch, Marc Jaffe, Momaday, Ursula Le Guin
The Kiowa writer Scott Momaday passed this week. He was 89. I met him once, when he came to Wallowa County to make the presentation of a horse by the Wood family to the walʔwá ma, or Joseph Band Nez Perce. He’d come across the story of the horse that Chief Joseph told...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 16, 2021 | Beth Piatote, Bobbie Conner, Indian Horse, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, Momaday, spalding, whitman, Whitman College
Here’s how I found my way to The Way to Rainy Mountain For the past few years, the Josephy Center has had a book group. It started with small, in-person meetings, and moved online with the coming of Covid. Our last book was Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing,...
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 | Dec 21, 2020 | assimilation, Deb Haaland, Department of Interior, Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Momaday, Philip Deloria, Poet laureate, Silko, termination policy
Deb Haaland, President-elect Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of the Interior, is a 35th generation New Mexican who is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna. She will be the first enrolled member of an American Indian Nation to serve as a Cabinet...
