Eloy Martinez talks about participating in the occupation of Alcatraz (1969-1971) and its seminal role in bringing together diverse Native Americans asserting their rights, ending the United States termination policies, returning land to tribes, and galvanizing other Native American movements.
Joey Iyolopixtli Torres describes the origins and journey of his tribe, the Indigenous people of what is now called the San Francisco Bay Area (United States), from their creation story centered on Coyote to persevering through waves of European invasion.
Little Bear shares how, in the foster system, he was told he was “white” and forbidden from asking questions about his identity, which was first revealed to him in prison, where being in a sweat lodge transformed his life.
Kim Shuck talks about her identity as a Euro-Native woman living in San Francisco, in the context of the history of the Cherokee Nation, the settler colonization of the United States, and her paternal Cherokee side’s proclivity for mathematics.
