by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 16, 2020 | American Indians, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, epidemics, Navajo Nation, Pandemics, smallpox
Of course “Black Lives Matter”! And bringing attention to the large numbers of deaths by police and the cases and deaths by COVID-19 among African-Americans is the right thing to do. The press has gone some way towards reporting the heavy impact of the disease on the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 13, 2020 | 1491, Charles Mann, COVID-19, epidemics, Helper t-cells, HLA, Indigenous population of America, Pandemics, smallpox
Years ago, when I was the Director of an organization called Fishtrap, we had a conference at Wallowa Lake on “Fire.” Stephen J. Pyne, the McArthur Fellow who wrote the books on fire in America, was the featured speaker. Forest Service and BLM firefighters from across...
