• Josephy Videos
  • Donate

A GATHERING PLACE FOR THE ARTS IN WALLOWA COUNTY

  • Newsletter
  • Traveling Exhibits
  • About
        • About
        • Library Director
        • Alvin Josephy
  • Collections
        • Digital Collections

        • Annotated Alvin Josephy Bibliography
        • Multimedia Nez Perce Archives
        • Audio/Visual Collection
        • Exhibits

        • Nez Perce in Oregon
        • Dams, Salmon, & Controversy
        • Nez Perce Treaties & Reservations
        • Historic Wallowa Postcards
        • Alvin Josephy's Life
        • Literature

        • Library Books
        • Nez Perce Literature Bibliography
  • Nez Perce
        • About The Nimiipuu
        • Nez Perce Exhibit Archive
        • Ancestral Wallowa Lands
        • ‘etweyé·wise Sculpture
        • Nez Perce Books
        • Nez Perce in Oregon: Removal & Return
        • Nez Perce Treaties & Reservations
        • The Way They Lived
        • Nez Perce Music
        • Nez Perce Ephemera
  • Events
        • Nez Perce Exhibit
        • lecture at Josephy with 30 participants
        • Tuesday Talks
        • Summer History Talks
  • Traveling Exhibits
  • Blog
  • Josephy Home

What DNA says

by Rich Wandschneider | May 2, 2018 | American Indians, Anglo-American, DNA, Germans, Manifest Destiny, Scandinavians, whiteness

Viking TravelsA few years ago my sister had a DNA profile done. To her surprise, the family stories, passed down from Minnesota Germans and Norwegians, that said our mother’s people were pure Scandinavian and dad’s side was all German, turned out to be more...

White Privilege

by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 5, 2018 | April 1968, King assassination, national guard, Washington D. C. riots, White privilege, whiteness

Washington D.C. April, 1968Fifty years ago this week I was living in Washington D. C., near DuPont Circle on New Hampshire Avenue. I worked at the Peace Corps office, which was across Lafayette Square from the White House. It was less than a mile walk on Connecticut...
Omissions and Celebrations --
a History Blog
Exploring the omissions and misdeeds in our history and in American stories, and celebrating Native knowledge and revival.
Most Recent Posts
  • Hope
  • Dark—and Darker–Times
  • An Old Indian Pattern
  • Sunday at Nespelem

Subscribe To Rich's Blog!

* indicates required

View previous campaigns

/* real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups */

Subscribe to Friends of the Library!

* indicates required
/* real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups */

Intuit Mailchimp

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Josephy Center for Arts & Culture © 2026 || Web Design by Seth Kinzie