by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 15, 2025 | Canadian border, Gaza, greenland, Hawaii, Idaho, joint occupancy, Oregon territory, Treaty of Ghent
The current border moving initiative in Oregon is only the latest in the historic record of border clashes, changes, and controversies. It has no real chance of success, but the issue has people talking—about land use planning, abortion, health care in general, sales...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 31, 2021 | Indian treaties, Indian wars, Indians, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce War, Oregon territory, Oregon Trail, Oregon tribes, plains Indians, Syria
My friend Charlie texted me this morning to remind me that President Biden will announce today that he has ended America’s “longest war.” Charlie says that the Indian wars went on longer, that his people’s war, what we call the Nez Perce War, was one of the last of a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 12, 2016 | 1493 papal bull, Doctrine of Discovery, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Indian treaties, joint occupancy, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Northern Paiute, Oregon territory
I’ve been wondering where to start in understanding the Bundys and the militia takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge—and I keep getting pushed back in time and place. My journey started with the obvious—the Paiutes, but it didn’t take me long to get to the Pope!Let...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 25, 2013 | Chief Joseph's daughter, Eliza Gale, Hudson’s Bay Company, joseph gale, Oregon history, Oregon territory
We don’t know how things will turn out in Egypt, Libya, or Syria, don’t know where the Arab Spring will take the people who are in the midst of it, or, for that matter, what impacts it will have on us, living thousands of miles away but connected by war, trade, and...
