by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 18, 2025 | ICE, Israel, Native Americans, Palestine
The move to strip Native Americans of their birthright citizenship has become quiet as the administration carries on campaigns to punish black and brown people of other places in other ways. The Indian issue seems to have gone away or never been—as Trump and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 16, 2024 | Hamas, Irgun, Israel, Netanyahu, Palestine
Segregationist Southern Democrats had a grip on the party—and in some cases the country—for years. Lyndon Johnson’s embrace of Civil Rights legislation alienated Southern Democrats, and chased them into the Republican Party—which had been the party of Lincoln and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 21, 2024 | Germans, Holocaust, Ken Burns, Palestine
I recently watched the Ken Burns documentary on “The US and the Holocaust,” some of it for the second time. I have visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. multiple times. I had a good friend, now deceased, whose US Army Tank unit liberated the Buchenwald...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 9, 2023 | Alvin Josephy, American Indian history, American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Anglo-American, Gaza, Israel, Palestine
In the introduction to America In 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus, a book of essays Alvin Josephy edited and published on the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s landing in the Caribbean, he wrote that: “Commencing with Columbus’s...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 5, 2023 | American Indian history, American Indians, Arab, Arab-Israeli War, Indian assimilation, Indian history, Indian Relocation, Indian removal, Indian reservations, Israel, Palestine, Unworthy Republic
When I am talking with non-Native audiences, and even when talking with Tribal friends, I sometimes say that I feel like I am body-surfing on a wave of pro-Indian sentiment in the country. I say that a big part of this is based on recognition of non-Native—read...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 23, 2018 | Alvin Josephy, American Indians, Palestine, YES, Youth exchange and study programs
Dear Friends, It’s hard to know where to start. Should I tell you about kids and grandkids, triumphs and setbacks over the past year? Or muse about the state of the country and the world, the places I visited or lived in years ago—and are still close to my heart—that...
