by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 12, 2023 | plateau tribes, rez ball
Last night I went to two ball games in La Grande. The Eastern Oregon women’s and men’s teams handily beat the teams from Corban University in Salem, Oregon. I went because I love to watch games, not the professional contests of huge and brilliant athletes, but the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 15, 2021 | Isaac Stevens, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Tribe, plateau tribes, Walla walla treaty
It’s grasshopper season, which in my time and place means mild annoyance at the invading insects and watching the cat play with and eat them. I’ve never seen a real grasshopper devastation, what is called a “plague of locusts,” what God told Moses to deliver to the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 16, 2016 | dugout canoe, Nez Perce, Nez Perce National Park, plateau tribes
A year ago, Allen Pinkham Jr. worked for a few weeks as an artist in residence at the Josephy Center. He beaded and made drums and taught workshops in beading and drum-making. At the end of his stay, Allen said that he’d enjoyed himself, and that he would like to come...
