by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 9, 2025 | Columbia River, Indian removal, Indian survival, Indian Territory, Indian treaties, John Marshall, Klamath, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Pacific Northwest, salmon, Snake River, Snake River dams, Supreme Court
I just watched the Washington Post’s account of the 15 young tribal members who kayaked the 310-mile length of the Klamath River this summer. They had trained hard, become excellent paddlers, readying themselves as the river was readying itself for them; the river...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 1, 2024 | Eastern Oregon University, Nez Perce Fisheries, Nez Perce treaty, salmon, sockeye salmon, Uncategorized
Two things today. First, we had a great presentation on sockeye salmon on Tuesday. Sarah Barnes, the new Nez Perce Fisheries biologist on their sockeye team, gave us the history and biology of Wallowa Lake sockeye. She was backed up by other staff from NP Fisheries...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 25, 2023 | beaver, beaver hats, buffalo, Ken Burns, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Oregon, salmon
The new Ken Burns documentary, the American Buffalo, follows the Euro-Americans across the continent as they kill buffalo, kill them mostly for profit—meat for the railroad workers; tongues which fetched high prices as culinary delicacies in the East; buffalo robes...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 6, 2022 | American Indian diet, Indian diet, Indian gardens, Indigenous cuisine, Kimmerer, Lakota, salmon, Squanto
It struck me first in the wake of the Vietnam War, when hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Laotian, Thai, and Cambodian refugees arrived in America—and began opening restaurants. Even then I thought back to small Mexican restaurants in 1950s Southern California, and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 13, 2021 | Nex Perce history, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Nez Perce Homeland, salmon, Wallowa, Wallowa Country
On Saturday, Indian elders helped dedicate the “side channel project” on the Nez Perce Homeland grounds in Wallowa. The Wallowa River, Nez Perce Fisheries workers told us, had been shoved to a side, channelized decades ago, probably in the 1940s and 50s, so that more...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 18, 2016 | Astor, beaver, Columbia District, fur trade, Georg Simpson, Hudson’s Bay Company, joint occupancy, North West Company, Oregon Country, salmon
President-elect Trump’s promise to promote coal mining and open more public lands for development of natural gas and oil is not new politics. And the Indian-centered and inspired movement to stop the Dakota Access pipeline is not the first fight by Native Americans...
