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 25, 2023 | beaver, beaver hats, buffalo, Ken Burns, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Oregon, salmon
The new Ken Burns documentary, the American Buffalo, follows the Euro-Americans across the continent as they kill buffalo, kill them mostly for profit—meat for the railroad workers; tongues which fetched high prices as culinary delicacies in the East; buffalo robes...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 12, 2018 | Creative Heights grant, Doug Hyde, Joseph, Josephy Center, Nez Perce, Oregon, Oregon Community Foundation
Nez Perce Removal and ReturnArtist Doug Hyde was born in Hermiston, Oregon, and traces Nez Perce, Assiniboine, and Chippewa tribal ancestry. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s. While...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 4, 2016 | Chief Joseph Days, Eugene Pallette, Gary Cooper, Joseph, Oregon, The Westerner, Wallowa Country, Wallowa County, Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper in “The Westerner”We celebrated the life and work of actor Walter Brennan this weekend at the Josephy Center. Grandpa McCoy of TV’s “Real McCoys” bought a ranch in Wallowa County in 1940, long before he played on television, but well...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 6, 2013 | Chief Joseph, Homeland Project, Indian mascot names, Josephy Library, Nez Perce, Oregon, Wallowa, Wallowa County, Willamette Indian Studies
Tuesday Brown Bag lunches at the Library are gaining traction—bigger and more diverse audiences each week—and one never knows who will show up or what the conversation will be. This week the theme was the “Nez Perce Homeland Project” in Wallowa. New staffer Mary...
