by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 27, 2021 | Beth Piatote, Birchbark Books, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, Minnesota Indians, Momaday, Philip Deloria, Sherman Alexie, White Earth Reservation
Our number one Josephy Library volunteer, Elnora Cameron, just returned from a trip across the North, and into the Midwest. She spent a few hours in Louise Erdrich’s Minneapolis bookstore, Birchbark Books (https://birchbarkbooks.com), and came back with a very...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 12, 2018 | assault, Bill Clinton, harassment, Indians, Sherman Alexie
When I first heard the news about Sherman Alexie’s treatment of women—especially of Native women writers—I thought immediately of Bill Clinton. Poor kid from wrong side of tracks with extraordinary smarts fights his way up the white male-dominated American ladder of...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 23, 2017 | Lonnie Bunch, lynchings, Museum of African American History and Culture, Sherman Alexie, Standing Rock, Treaty Rights
I think a lot about the Euro-American treatment of Indians. It’s impossibly complex—from the “noble savage” to the “savage savage”; from the Mohawk chiefs paraded before painters and courts in England, named “King Philip” and “Prince Hendrik,” to Squanto, captured off...
