by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 9, 2025 | Columbia River, Indian removal, Indian survival, Indian Territory, Indian treaties, John Marshall, Klamath, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Pacific Northwest, salmon, Snake River, Snake River dams, Supreme Court
I just watched the Washington Post’s account of the 15 young tribal members who kayaked the 310-mile length of the Klamath River this summer. They had trained hard, become excellent paddlers, readying themselves as the river was readying itself for them; the river...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 11, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, American Indian history, Chief Joseph, Indian country, Indian history, Indians, John F. Kennedy, Pacific Northwest, Peace Corps, portland art museum
I got news of the new exhibit at the Portland Art Museum from two friends. The show is “Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s,” and, knowing my work with Indians and relationship to the late Alvin Josephy, they sent images of an exhibit text around a book...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 6, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Bernard Bailyn, daniel richter, Eurocentrism, Farthest Frontier, Pacific Northwest, Sidney Warren, The Barbarous Years
Alvin Josephy acknowledged the havoc wreaked on indigenous Americans by diseases, wars, and alcohol, but he said many times that the most pernicious impact on the Americans was Eurocentrism, the idea that the newcomers’ cultures and notions of religion and politics...
