by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 27, 2018 | Chief Joseph, Colville Reservation, Indian boarding schools, Indian Territory, Nez Perce, Thick Dark Fog, umatilla reservation, Walter Littlemoon
It was the week after Albert and Veronica Redstar, brother and sister elders of the Joseph or Wallowa Band of the Nez Perce from the Colville Reservation in Washington, talked about 140 years of exile. The audience was 45 workers and board members from Wallowa...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 29, 2012 | Fosston MN, Indian boarding schools, Itasca State Park, Mn, Pine Ridge reservation, Thick Dark Fog, vanishing Indian, Walter Littlemoon, White Earth Reservation, Wild West Show
I am still haunted by the “Thick Dark Fog” that Walter Littlemoon described in the video I saw on Public Television last week. Walter was born the same year that I was, 1942, in Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I was born in Fosston,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2012 | boarding schools, Chief Joseph, Jim Pepper, Josephy Library, Maria Tallchief, Nativetelecom, Nez Perce, Sandra Osawa, Smoke Signals, termination policy, Thick Dark Fog, Walter Littlemoon
I watched a film on PBS last night, “The Thick Dark Fog.” It is the story of a Lakota man named Walter Littlemoon and his struggle to reclaim his humanity, stolen from him at a boarding school as a five year old on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The man’s a poet—a simple...
