by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 14, 2024 | Bobbie Conner, Columbus, Columbus Day, Columbus Day & Indigenous Peoples Day, Coyote Warrior, Doctrine of Discovery, Indian assimilation, Indian treaties, Indigenous Peoples Day, Jefferson, John Marshall, Justice Marshall, Paul VanDevelder, Raymond Cross
Once, years ago, we had a Nez Perce history discussion going on at the Josephy Center. Bobbie Conner, then and now director of Tamastslikt on the Umatilla Reservation, came in the door on another task. I greeted her from the balcony discussion group and announced that...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 22, 2011 | Alvin Josephy, Paul VanDevelder, salmon
Al Josephy shot me an email last week with a link to an op ed piece in the Oregonian by Paul VanDevelder. It was called “The reckoning: A looming decision on endangered salmon will set the stage for momentous battles over the future.”“Sometime this spring,” it begins,...