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 | Feb 16, 2023 | Allotment Act, Dawes Act, Umatilla, Umatilla Confederated Tribes, umatilla reservation
In 1855, at the treaty negotiations in Walla Walla, the Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla peoples were left a reservation of 245,699 acres, and the ability to hunt, fish, and gather in “usual and accustomed places” off the reservation lands. Over a century of...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 21, 2021 | David Treuer, Deb Haaland, Jaime Pinkham, Nez Perce, Umatilla Confederated Tribes
With fires and covid raging, and the messy retreat in Afghanistan, it’s a murky time. So good news in the Department of the Interior is welcome! Chuck Sams, enrolled on the Umatilla Reservation, where he has served in several tribal government positions and as a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 2, 2016 | Colville tribes, Lapwai, Long house, longhouse, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Tribe, Tamkaliks, Umatilla Confederated Tribes, Wallowa
Few Indians live in the Wallowa Country now, but Indians come here every year—maybe, even through war and exile, some few have always made their ways here to hunt and gather foods and be in this place. Now, they come to run Nez Perce Fisheries, to manage a small piece...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 29, 2016 | Alvin Josephy, First Foods, Flint, Iowa cornfields, Iowa water, Michigan, Umatilla Confederated Tribes
The water in FlintAs I read headlines about Flint, Michigan’s water over the past months, and of water contaminated by chemical runoff in the farm belts of the Midwest and on irrigated ground closer to home, the notion that the relationship between humans and the land...
