In this three-part interview, Mary Curtis Ratcliff talks to Kakoli Mitra about her experiences as a European-American woman born in the United States in 1942, with respect to the revisionist history she was taught in elementary school regarding Native Americans and how her subsequent understanding changed. As a child, even though her mother would sometimes look for arrowheads on her family’s property, Mary Curtis believed that Native Americans no longer existed because that is what she was taught in school. In her late 20s, as a pioneering member of the Videofreex, Mary Curtis traveled to San Francisco, California, at the time when Native Americans were occupying Alcatraz, a former island prison in the San Francisco Bay. Videofreex tried very hard to get on the island to document this occupation. But when the Native Americans heard who was funding the Videofreex (CBS, a large corporate television broadcasting company), they did not agree to be filmed. Why? Because CBS was part of the establishment that the Native Americans, and many others at the time, were rebelling against. Mary Curtis talks about her life just before and after she left the Videofreex in 1971. One day, in Manhattan, New York, she attended a Peyote ceremony (made illegal by the United States government for anyone not at least a quarter Native American) held by Chief Leonard Crow Dog, a Lakota Sioux medicine man, the head Medicine Man for the American Indian movement at the time.