by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 4, 2021 | Dee Brown, Indian history, Indian religion, Sioux, Sitting Bull, Trail of Tears
In the fall of 1971, just months into my life in the Wallowas, my mind muddled with the Peace Corps and Washington D.C. lives I’d only recently left, I got a copy of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee in the mail from Barb, my old Peace Corps partner. Her note said she was...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 26, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, caribbean indians, christopher columbus, edward curtis, john white, noble savage, rousseau, Trail of Tears, vanishing Indian, vanishing race
Relationships between European immigrants and indigenous people in the Americas have been complicated from the beginning. Columbus and his henchmen squeezed the Caribbeans of gold, enslaved them, annihilated some tribes, and took the case of indigenous...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 14, 2012 | Age of Jackson, Alvany Plan, Benjamin Franklin, David McCullough, Indan history, Iroquis Legue, John Adams, Trail of Tears
I had been reading David McCullough’s book, John Adams, with great pleasure. My knowledge of colonial times and the birth of the nation is old and limited, so the exploration of the lives and careers of Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Jay, Madison, Hamilton, and all of...
