by Rich Wandschneider | May 31, 2026 | Arab, Arab-Israeli War, Futufre is Peace, In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, Joseph, Nation of strangers, Nez Perce, Temelkuran
I have just finished reading “The Future is Peace,” co-written by an Israeli Jew, Maoz Inon, and a Palestinian Moslem, Aziz Abu Sarah. The two came together in shared tragedy—Aziz lost a teenage brother tortured in Israeli prisons when young and too week to live when...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 26, 2026 | American Indians, horses, Nez Perce, Pueblo Revolt
Alvin Josephy said that Americans—settlers, politicians, and historians—were often guilty of “Eurocentrism,” seeing everything through old European eyes. Their understandings of the peoples of the “New World” were clouded. Naming the people “Indians” was a first...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 20, 2026 | 1855 treaty, 1863 treaty, A.B. Findley, Enterprise Oregon, H.R. Findley, Imnaha, Joseph, Joseph Band, Joseph Oregon, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce War, Sarah Findley, Wallowa, Wallowa Country, Wallowa County, Wallowa History Center
The Wallowa History Center is an amazing place that is becoming an important institution in the county’s capture and celebration of local history and culture. It sits in the old Forest Service compound at the west edge of Wallowa, as you make your way through town...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 7, 2026 | David, David Brooks, Israel, Nez Perce, Palestine, Rotary, The Future is Peace
It’s so easy to find fault with country and world today. With courts, the administration, foreign governments, with dictators and oppressors everywhere. I’ve compared what is happening today to the awful 1930s and 1940s, the rise of Stalin and his camps and use of...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 17, 2026 | 1855 treaty, 1863 treaty, Allotment Act, american immigrants, American Indian history, assimilation, boarding schools, immigration, Indian history, Indian massacres, Indian removal, Indian reservations, Indian treaties, Indian wars, Indians, Iran, Israel, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty
The stock market is setting records at every mention of a cease fire in Gaza, Iran, or Lebanon, and as each ship crosses Hormuz. Sometimes there is disappointment, and the market briefly plunges, but it is ready to leap back at the next bit of good news. And the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 7, 2026 | Chief Joseph, Indigenous cuisine, Iran, Joseph Band, Nespelem, Nez Perce
I woke up this morning with a pit in my stomach, an ache for my friends, family, country, and indeed the world. And this after a wonderful weekend in Nespelem, Washington at a First Foods Feast with the walwa ma—sometimes called the “Joseph”—band of the Nez Perce...
