by Rich Wandschneider | May 14, 2025 | immigration, Sand Creek Massacre, Turkey, Turks, Uncategorized, Wounded Knee
It’s a cliché, usually used to describe investigations or interrogations. One cop is hard and tough, the other softer—more understanding. They work over the witness or the alleged perpetrator of a crime, and in the back and forth between good and bad cop a truth—or a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 25, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Bear River Massacre, Chivington, Civil War In the West, Colonel Patrick Conner, Minnesota Indians, New Ulm, Sand Creek Massacre
From the Pequot War forward, Alvin Josephy wrote in a 1979 article in The Indian Historian, Whites gave the Native Americans three options. The first was that they could stop being Indians and turn themselves into Whites. They would have their hair cut, wear...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 11, 2012 | 500 nations, Alvin Josephy, Bear River Massacre, Civil War and Indians, Pacific Northwest History Conference, Sand Creek Massacre
Back in April, I got notice that the theme for the Pacific Northwest History Association’s fall meeting in Tacoma, Washington was to be “The Civil War and Civil Rights.” As it happened, I was reading Alvin J’s The Civil War in the American West at the time, and...
