by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 25, 2022 | 1855 treaty, 1863 treaty, Alice Flether, Allen Pinkham, smallpox, smallpox epidemic of 1780s, Snake River
It’s holiday time, Thanksgiving and I am in Oregon City at my son’s place, reading the morning news on my computer. The house is quiet with people sleeping off yesterday’s meal and working from home on their computers. I got up early and read for an hour in a book...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 2, 2021 | Bison Books, Catholicism, Manifest Destiny, Marcus Whitman, Reverend Spalding, smallpox epidemic of 1780s, spalding, whitman
My last rambling blog post tried to link missionaries Whitman and Spalding, Catholic and anti-Catholic Northwesterners, Yale historians, Manifest Destiny, the Fur Trade, Whitman College and Bison Books into a tidy essay on history and historiography. I could have done...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 3, 2020 | Blackfeet, Chuck Sams, fur trade and smallpox, measles, Shoshone, smallpox, smallpox epidemic of 1780s, umatilla reservation, Willamette Valley tribes
Chuck Sams is the incident commander for coronavirus response on the Umatilla Reservation. He recently told Oregon Public Radio’s “Think Out Loud” that “The tribes [Umatilla, Cayuse, Walla Walla] have faced pandemic before; our last one ended in around 1860, but that...
