by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 28, 2018 | Christine Blasey Ford, Cory Booker, Kavanaugh, McCarthy hearings, Standing Rock, Supreme Court
Like many, I have been semi-glued to the judicial committee hearings over the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. And today, showered and ready for work, I paused to listen to Senator Cory Booker—and immediately had a flashback to 1954.We’d...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 21, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Boldt decision, Indian treaties, Marlon Brando, Northwest fish wars, Standing Rock
Alvin Josephy told me once that liberals just didn’t get it with Indians. In the sixties, after legislative victories on voting and discrimination issues, some liberals, according to Alvin, were ready to “move on to Indians.” But when they took their good...
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...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 9, 2017 | Bears Ears. Terry Tempest Williams, Coyote Warrior, National monument, Standing Rock
Well-known Utah writer Terry Tempest Williams wonders in a recent New York Times piece about the Trump administration’s executive orders and National Monuments. “Will Bears Ears Be the Next Standing Rock?” she asks.Bears Ears Intertribal CoalitionTerry’s piece ran a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 8, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Bismarck, Dakota Access, David Osborne, executive order, Great White Father, North Dakota, Pawnee lawsuit, Standing Rock
The Dakota Access Pipeline says they have drilled under the water and have just a bit of work to do before oil begins to flow. Earth Justice has filed an appeal on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux, and other tribes have filed other suits, but there is no word that...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 16, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Jill Turkewitz, New York Times, Standing Rock
(submitted, but not printed, as Op-ed to New York Times) Recent decisions regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline deserve outrage. How is it that the Army Corps of Engineers, having recently agreed to a full environmental impact statement and search for an alternate...
