by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 2, 2023 | catholic indian missions, Henry Spalding, Hudson’s Bay Company, Louisiana Purchase, Metis, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
I’m not a Catholic, and not an anti-Catholic. And I won’t whitewash the many heinous crimes of boarding schools and deviant priests. But, given that, I see a strong bent of anti-Catholicism in our history. The result of a strong current of Anglo-American Protestant...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 1, 2016 | California, Colorado, joint occupancy, Mestizo, Mexican, Oregon Country, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Only Louisiana Purchase & Alaska were larger additionsEarlier this week, a Library visitor talked about her “roots”: specifically about a grandmother who was Apache and Mexican. At this point her proud, and very non-Indian or Mexican looking husband chimed in:...
