by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 31, 2021 | Indian treaties, Indian wars, Indians, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce War, Oregon territory, Oregon Trail, Oregon tribes, plains Indians, Syria
My friend Charlie texted me this morning to remind me that President Biden will announce today that he has ended America’s “longest war.” Charlie says that the Indian wars went on longer, that his people’s war, what we call the Nez Perce War, was one of the last of a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 21, 2015 | Afghanistan, american immigrants, expulsions, indigenous americans, Iraq, migrations, Ottomans, refugees, Romani, Syria
The pictures and stories of refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Germany and more bring a brilliant image of mass migration into sharp and heart tugging focus. At first look and sound it seems like something new, and the proximate causes—wars...
