by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 16, 2025 | Klamath, Nez Perce, Shannon Wheeler, Snake River, Snake River dams, Yurok
In an age of rapid and vast migrations, political polarization, and uncertain and severe weather events, American Indians seem to be a calm in the middle of many storms. Maybe indigenous peoples in other countries sit at their own centers, with the same continental...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 5, 2023 | East Moraine Community Forest, Nez Perce Fisheries, Nez Perce Homeland, Shannon Wheeler, sockeye salmon, Wallowa, Wallowa Lake, Wallowa Land Trust, Wallowa Resources
On Saturday, I made the hike up the west-side trail on the East Moraine of Wallowa Lake. This is a piece of land that the Wallowa Land Trust has worked very hard over many years to keep away from developers. Slowly—over the years, and with the support of the County...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 26, 2023 | Nez Perce Tribe, Representative Simpson, Shannon Wheeler, Snake River, Snake River dams
On Thursday, May 22, new Nez Perce Executive Committee Chair Shannon Wheeler addressed a lively Josephy Center audience on the current status of the Lower Snake River Dams. Kyle Smith of American Rivers, who has the newly created role of “Snake River...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 30, 2020 | epidemic disease, First thanksgiving, Nez Perce, Robin Kimmerer, Salmon people, Shannon Wheeler, smallpox, Snake River dams, Sweetgrass
Several people forwarded me a link to “Salmon People: A tribe’s decades-long fight to take down the Lower Snake River dams and restore a way of life,” a fine article on the lower Snake River dams by Linda Mapes, published in the Seattle Times on Sunday, November 29....
