by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 26, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, Indian reservations, Indian survival, Indian treaties, Indian wars, Indians and salmon, Nez Perce Homeland, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland, Nez Perce War, Nezpercians, Old Joseph, Oregon, Oregon history, Oregon Trail, Oregon tribes
On Monday, September 29 at the State Capitol in Salem, the Josephy Center’s “Nez Perce in Oregon, Removal and Return” exhibit will open for a month-long run with a 4:00 p.m. reception. It’s been a long and wonderful journey! About four years ago, a call went out from...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 31, 2022 | baseball, Lewis and Clark, Marcus Whitman, Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Oregon Trail
I watched all 8 hours of Ken Burns’ recently released “Muhammad Ali”; good, but maybe a bit too long. And it reminded me that I had also watched “Jackie Robinson” and “Jack Johnson,” and all 18 innings of “Baseball.” Baseball was glorious and my favorite; it told the...
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 30, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Fort Colville, Fort Nez Perces, Hudson’s Bay Company, Marcus Whitman, measles epidemics, Oregon Trail, Robert Boyd, Whitman massacre
Some days I just want to shout at Alvin—Is this what you meant?After a few years wrestling with his writing and remembered conversations, poking through the books and journals he left to the Josephy Library—the Oregon Historical Quarterlies are gold mines!—and...
