by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 11, 2024 | George Washington, Indian population, Marcus Whitman, measles, mumps, smallpox, vaccination, vaccine, Whitman massacre
A friend texted me to say that she “got whooping cough for Christmas.” I’m 82 and don’t remember knowing anyone with whooping cough. Maybe it was around when I was young, but my own disease related memories are chicken pox—mom taking me to the neighbor’s house to...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 28, 2024 | David McCullough, George Washington, Indian assimilation, Indian history, Indian land tenure, Indian removal, Indian survival, Indian treaties, Indian wars, Jill Lepore, Ned Blackhawk, Sara Koenig, The Rediscovery of America, whitman, Whitman massacre
There are new revelations on every page in Ned Blackhawk’s ambitious The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. In putting Indians back into the history of the country, rather than treating the trials and tribulations of Indian...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 13, 2023 | California, catholic indian missions, Catholicism, Western History, whitman, Whitman massacre
It would be easy now to pile on the Catholic Church—especially its hierarchy. The Vatican’s recent “repudiation” of the Doctrine of Discovery has been followed by the Maryland Attorney General’s announcement of “staggering sexual abuse” by church officials in his...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 30, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Fort Colville, Fort Nez Perces, Hudson’s Bay Company, Marcus Whitman, measles epidemics, Oregon Trail, Robert Boyd, Whitman massacre
Some days I just want to shout at Alvin—Is this what you meant?After a few years wrestling with his writing and remembered conversations, poking through the books and journals he left to the Josephy Library—the Oregon Historical Quarterlies are gold mines!—and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 19, 2013 | catholic indian missions, Catholic Ladder, Eliza Spalding, father point, Flatheads, Henry Spalding, Jesuit mission montana, Lapwai, oregon historical quarterly, quipo, Whitman massacre
For whatever reason—maybe the wonderful cover photo—I have kept the Spring 1996 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly by my bed, and pick it up from time to time to look at the fine drawings and paintings of Father Nicolas Point, and to follow those first Jesuits...
