by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 9, 2025 | Columbia River, Indian removal, Indian survival, Indian Territory, Indian treaties, John Marshall, Klamath, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Pacific Northwest, salmon, Snake River, Snake River dams, Supreme Court
I just watched the Washington Post’s account of the 15 young tribal members who kayaked the 310-mile length of the Klamath River this summer. They had trained hard, become excellent paddlers, readying themselves as the river was readying itself for them; the river...
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 | Jul 31, 2023 | dams, Klamath, Snake River dams, Tulare Lake
Tulare Lake in California was once America’s largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. Over decades, it had been completely drained and turned into extensive farmland, the waters that once fed it diverted in other directions for irrigation and city drinking....
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....
