by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 21, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, California, California genocide, California Indians, California missions, Greg Saris, National Museum of American Indian, Peace Corps, Ursula Pike
Years ago, I reviewed a book by Ursula Pike, an enrolled Karuk Tribal member who grew up in Oregon and California and went into the Peace Corps. The book was An Indian among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir. One can imagine the quandaries and perplexities of a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 28, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Heye Museum, National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Musuem of American Indian, Vine Deloria
I stopped by Tamastslikt on my way to Portland to talk with curator Randall Melton about some Indian artifacts that Alvin Josephy had left for the Josephy Library at Fishtrap. In the course of conversation he said that he had met Alvin a couple of times, most...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 6, 2012 | As Days Go By; Cayuse, Bobbie Conner, Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes, National Museum of American Indian, Nez Perce, NMAI, Roberta Conner, Tamastslikt, Umatilla, Walla Walla Indians
Some of you might have already heard, but it is worth repeating! Roberta “Bobbie” Conner is the incoming Chair of Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She has been on the Board since 2008, co-facilitated a Tribal museum...
