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.
Gayle “Asali” Dickson describes how the discrimination she faced as an Afro-American girl and young woman in Oakland (California, United States) awakened within her the spirit of activism that led her to later join the Black Panther Party in 1969.
Original art by Bill Weber: ‘Luis Antonio Maria Peralta: my fourth great-grandfather,’ oil on canvas, 10 x 20 inches (2016).
Bill Weber talks about the history of the family of his maternal great-grandmother, whose great-grandfather was Luis Maria Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Empire’s army, who was granted almost 45,000 acres of land in the San Francisco East Bay.
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.
