by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 4, 2021 | Dee Brown, Indian history, Indian religion, Sioux, Sitting Bull, Trail of Tears
In the fall of 1971, just months into my life in the Wallowas, my mind muddled with the Peace Corps and Washington D.C. lives I’d only recently left, I got a copy of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee in the mail from Barb, my old Peace Corps partner. Her note said she was...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 13, 2013 | Baxter Springs, Bismarck, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Chief Joseph, Flight of the Nez Perce, Fort Keogh, General Howard, General Miles, Kent Nerburn, Leavenworth, Nez Perce, Nez Perce War, Ollokot, Sitting Bull
Note: We just completed a four week examination of the “Wallowa Country: 1855-1900” at the Josephy Center. Teaching is new to me, but four high school juniors and a fine group of eighteen older history buffs, curious newcomers to the Wallowa, and serious students of...