by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 11, 2020 | African Americans, Ibram X. Kendi, Indian treaties, Indians, internment camps, Japanese-Americans, Latinx, Mexican American War, Reconstruction, Reparations, Republic of Texas, slavery, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Reparations—government payments or amends of some kind to the descendants of Black American slaves—are not a new idea, but the current Covid-19-BLM crisis has brought them back into conversation. I’ve been skeptical, wondering where Indians and Latinx would fit into...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 21, 2017 | assimilation, Chief Joseph, Daniel Sharfstein, General Howard, Reconstruction, Tamastslikt
Two weeks ago, friend Anne Richardson arranged a discussion of Daniel Sharfstein’s book on Chief Joseph and General Howard, Thunder in the Mountains, at Portland’s Black Hat Books. And this week, on Thursday, 14 of us from Wallowa County spent the day with...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 31, 2017 | California genocide, Chief Joseph, Civil War, Daniel Sharfstein, forty acres and a mule, Freedmen’s Bureau, General Howard, Nez Perce War, Reconstruction, The Other Slavery
I don’t know where I first heard or read that history books are often more about the time they are written in than the time they are written about. Several new books on Indians, and specifically the Nez Perce, support the idea. O.O. Howard and Chief Joseph I’m only 80...
