by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 27, 2017 | David Grann, Elise Paschen, Fishtrap, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maria Tallchief, Oklahoma Indians, Osage Indians, osage murders, Sandra Osawa
Where to start?I just finished reading Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. I thought first about people I know—people of Osage blood—who are indeed “lucky to be here” in light of what happened in Osage County, Oklahoma in the first...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2012 | boarding schools, Chief Joseph, Jim Pepper, Josephy Library, Maria Tallchief, Nativetelecom, Nez Perce, Sandra Osawa, Smoke Signals, termination policy, Thick Dark Fog, Walter Littlemoon
I watched a film on PBS last night, “The Thick Dark Fog.” It is the story of a Lakota man named Walter Littlemoon and his struggle to reclaim his humanity, stolen from him at a boarding school as a five year old on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The man’s a poet—a simple...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 13, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Dawes Act, Indian assimilation, Maria Tallchief, noble savage, Sandra Osawa, tribal termination
After the last blog on Mildred Bailey and “passing as white,” a friend suggested that it sounded accurate on the one hand, but on the other, why is it that so many Americans claim Indian roots? There are jokes about the number of people with Cherokee...
