by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 30, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Indian Heritage of America, Indian reservations, Kennewick Man, refugee crisis, refugees, the Ancient One
Alvin Josephy said that reservations and the continuing attachment to land they afforded have been instrumental in the survival of American Indian cultures. Reservations were, for the most part, diminished versions of ancient tribal landscapes, but however diminished,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 21, 2015 | Afghanistan, american immigrants, expulsions, indigenous americans, Iraq, migrations, Ottomans, refugees, Romani, Syria
The pictures and stories of refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Germany and more bring a brilliant image of mass migration into sharp and heart tugging focus. At first look and sound it seems like something new, and the proximate causes—wars...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 18, 2014 | fur trade, homestead act, indentured servants, Luis Urrea, pre-emption act, railroads, refugees
At the Fishtrap Gathering this weekend, writer Luis Alberto Urrea talked about the border. He’d written a non-fiction book, The Devil’s Highway, about 26 from Vera Cruz who crossed the border in 2001—twelve made it, and fourteen died in the trying. The book was a...
