by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2024 | Braiding Sweetgrass, Chuck Sams, condor, Deb Haaland, Indian country, Indian history, Joseph Canyon, Klamath, Native revival, Ned Blackhawk, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Philip J. Deloria, White Earth Reservation, Yurok
I thought I should follow up the last blog post, a musing—and hope—that there will be Natives sprinkled across government no matter the new regime. And I should have added that the sprinkling will be in local and state as well as the national government, and that the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 11, 2024 | horses, Hudson’s Bay Company, infectious diseases, Lakota, Native revival, Navajo, Ned Blackhawk, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce War, North American Indian, Pacific Northwest Indians
I’ve written before about Ned Blackhawk’s outstanding book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. Here’s more. The title itself is revolutionary—“rediscovering” echoing and countering the decades of homage to Columbus for...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 23, 2024 | catholic indian missions, Doctrine of Discovery, indigenous americans, Indigenous Continent, infectious diseases, Jefferson, Jill Lepore, Native American diseases, Native Americans, Native revival
I’m only 107 pages into Ned Blackhawks new book, The Rediscovery of America, and am already taken with an entirely new approach to American history. I’ve read Jill Lepore’s These Truths, and found it fact-filled, well written, and engaging, but, in the end, I found it...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 10, 2023 | Joe Biden, Native American languages, Native revival
President Biden continued his strong support for Native American causes and cultures this week when he signed two bills into law supporting language revitalization and education. The bills were authored by Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who, as chair of the Senate...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 4, 2022 | Native revival, Yurok
Yesterday I wrote about the land we live on and with, about a recent journey to Portland from home, and the home-ground itself. I used “spectacular” and might have used “stunning” to describe the Nez Perce Homeland I am privileged to live on. Today it’s a gray sky,...
