by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 13, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, Arab, Arab-Israeli War, Dawes Act, Diane Josephy Peavey, Donald Trump, Gaza, Indian land tenure, Netanyahu, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Tamastslikt, Umatilla, Umatilla Confederated Tribes, umatilla reservation, Walla Walla Indians, Walla walla treaty
My friend, Diane Josephy Peavey, has made several trips to Palestine over the last 20 years. She had it in mind years ago to write a book comparing the plight of the Palestinian Arabs (her hosts were most often Christian Arabs) to that of American Indians. It would...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 18, 2018 | Bobbie Conner, Celilo Falls, Ghosts of Celilo, Julie Kooch, Native Fish Society, Tamastslikt
Fishing at Celilo; Railroad Bridge in backgroundThursday, June 7. A call from the newspaper editor: He’d looked at the current exhibit on dams and salmon and attended Bobbie Conner’s talk at the opening on Sunday. “So when,” Paul asked, “did the biologists...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 29, 2018 | Arts Build Communities, Bobbie Conner, Josephy Center, sockeye salmon, Tamastslikt, Wallowa Lake
If you are “in the territory” in June!Salmon talk—and controversy—today is about “spills” on Columbia and Snake River dams to help push salmon smolt to the sea. Fifty and sixty years ago it was about getting salmon upriver to native spawning grounds.The June...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 21, 2017 | assimilation, Chief Joseph, Daniel Sharfstein, General Howard, Reconstruction, Tamastslikt
Two weeks ago, friend Anne Richardson arranged a discussion of Daniel Sharfstein’s book on Chief Joseph and General Howard, Thunder in the Mountains, at Portland’s Black Hat Books. And this week, on Thursday, 14 of us from Wallowa County spent the day with...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 4, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Bobbie Conner, Cliff Trafzer, Nez Perce, Nez Perce National Park, Tamastslikt, Time Magazine
Gordie High Eagle, Millie Zollman, Albert Barros On Sunday at the Josephy Center we honored Alvin with Nez Perce drums and talk and a new exhibit highlighting some of the milestones in his life. This all followed the opening of a splendid Nez Perce Art Show. The...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 6, 2012 | As Days Go By; Cayuse, Bobbie Conner, Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes, National Museum of American Indian, Nez Perce, NMAI, Roberta Conner, Tamastslikt, Umatilla, Walla Walla Indians
Some of you might have already heard, but it is worth repeating! Roberta “Bobbie” Conner is the incoming Chair of Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She has been on the Board since 2008, co-facilitated a Tribal museum...
