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 | Aug 15, 2021 | Isaac Stevens, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Tribe, plateau tribes, Walla walla treaty
It’s grasshopper season, which in my time and place means mild annoyance at the invading insects and watching the cat play with and eat them. I’ve never seen a real grasshopper devastation, what is called a “plague of locusts,” what God told Moses to deliver to the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 14, 2021 | Blaine Harden, Indian removal, Indian Territory, Indian treaties, Kellen Trellen, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Phil Cash Cash, spalding, Walla walla treaty, whitman, Whitman College
I’ve been writing Josephy Library blog posts for ten years, telling stories of lies, outrages, and omissions regarding Indians in American history. From time to time, I’ve thought I should make a book, comb and clean the posts up a bit, sometimes combine a couple or...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 27, 2021 | Chief Joseph, Indian treaties, Isaac Stevens, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Walla walla treaty, Wallowa, Wallowa Country, Wallowas, walwa’ma
Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Ground is Bette Lynch Husted’s memoir of growing up on a dirt-poor, white, family farm in Nez Perce Indian country in Idaho. Their meagre plot had once—and long—been Indian country. Nez Perce Reservation lands were reduced by 90...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 17, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Gustav Sohon, HCPC, Hells Canyon Preservation Council, McWhorter, Nez Perce, Walla walla treaty
So last week I gave a little talk at the Hells Canyon Preservation Council’s Portland fundraising event on the Nez Perce in the Wallowa Country. Board Chair Pete Sandrock told me I had 30 minutes—and that he was a tough timekeeper!There is no way to summarize the Nez...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 22, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Civil War, Governor Stevens, Isaac Stevens, Mexican American War, Nez Perce treaty, Walla walla treaty
Isaac Stevens is known in the region as the architect of the 1855 treaties that created the Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Yakima reservations. He was Governor of the Washington Territory, which made him the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and, along with his Oregon...
