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 | Jan 20, 2025 | Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Movement, martin luther king, Peace Corps, Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam, Vietnam legacy
In a brief essay in Sunday’s (January 19) Washington Post, Jonathan Eig, author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography, writes: “We can begin by remembering that, until his death in 1968, King had never gained the approval of most White...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 21, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, California, California genocide, California Indians, California missions, Greg Saris, National Museum of American Indian, Peace Corps, Ursula Pike
Years ago, I reviewed a book by Ursula Pike, an enrolled Karuk Tribal member who grew up in Oregon and California and went into the Peace Corps. The book was An Indian among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir. One can imagine the quandaries and perplexities of a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 19, 2013 | Peace Corps, rich wandschneider, Wallowa County
For many—maybe mostof its human inhabitants, the world is and always has been a hard place. For most, hope is the fuel that helps life go on. Hope for some kind of change that things will get better for us—or at least for our children, hope that tomorrow the sun will...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 29, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Columbian Exchange, Denis Strong, JFK, Patriot Chiefs, Peace Corps, Profiles in Courage, Squanto, Tecumseh, Thanksgiving, Turkey, UCR
It is the end of November in my 72nd year and my mind churns. I guess for many of us of a certain age November will always be associated with John Kennedy’s death. Yes, I remember the day, remember riding my bike to class at UC Riverside, putting it in a rack and...
