by Rich Wandschneider | May 14, 2025 | immigration, Sand Creek Massacre, Turkey, Turks, Uncategorized, Wounded Knee
It’s a cliché, usually used to describe investigations or interrogations. One cop is hard and tough, the other softer—more understanding. They work over the witness or the alleged perpetrator of a crime, and in the back and forth between good and bad cop a truth—or a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 14, 2023 | David Remnick, Gaza, Haaretz, Indan history, Indian wars, Nez Perce War, Wounded Knee
David Remnick of the “New Yorker” calls it “intolerable.” The last few weeks in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank have stretched us for words to describe the awful goings on. We mostly agree that the initial Hamas invasion of Israel and killing of innocents was...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 6, 2023 | David Treuer, Dee Brown, edward curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Indian survival, Indians in unexpected places, Native American languages, Philip Deloria, Philip J. Deloria, Wounded Knee
There’s a new history book that is rattling across the best seller lists. It’s a collection of essays called Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past. There are 20 chapters on everything from “American Exceptionalism” to the “New...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 8, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Custer Battlefield, Dakota Access, Dave Archambault, Julie Turkewitz, Little Big Man, Standing Rock, Standing Rock Sioux, Wounded Knee
November- Reuters NewsIn a brief story in the New York Times this morning, reporter Julie Turkewitz tells us that the Army has approved construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. It took Robert Speer, the acting secretary of the Army, two weeks—from the time of...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 14, 2016 | Alvin Josephy, Custer, Dakota Access, Kevin Cramer, Little Big Hole, Little Big Man, Sioux, Standing Rock, Wounded Knee
There’s no word from Standing Rock in the New York Times or on CNN today. Indians slip into the national news on occasion—and then, on most occasions, slip out as quickly. Both CNN and MSNBC did report yesterday about an oil spill from another pipeline just three...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 25, 2013 | Dakota Indians, Lakota, Minnesota Indian uprising, NYT editorial july 23, Pine Ridge, President Lincoln and Indians, Sioux, Wounded Knee
Alvin Josephy once noted that when the American Government wanted to show off our country to the world, it used images of Plains Indians, splendid in feathered headdresses and riding horses. It matched the image of Indians carried by most non-Indian Americans—omitting...
