by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 31, 2021 | Indian treaties, Indian wars, Indians, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce War, Oregon territory, Oregon Trail, Oregon tribes, plains Indians, Syria
My friend Charlie texted me this morning to remind me that President Biden will announce today that he has ended America’s “longest war.” Charlie says that the Indian wars went on longer, that his people’s war, what we call the Nez Perce War, was one of the last of a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 12, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Hudson’s Bay Company, missionary movement, noble savage, Peter Rindisbacher, plains Indians, rousseau
I keep trying to write about “assimilation,” because I know that Alvin considered it—the ways in which the white power structure has “zigzagged,” as he put it, with policies and actions aimed at “making Indians stop being Indians and turn themselves into...
