By Tracy Perkins, author of Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism
Group photo at the annual Ward Valley commemoration ceremony. February 24, 2018. Photo by author.
Today, there is no nuclear waste dump in Ward Valley. This beautiful stret...
By William J. Bauer, Jr., author of “Reclaiming Alcatraz: The Legacies and Continuities of the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1971–2021” published in the current issue of California History and coauthor, with Damon Akins, of We Are the Land: A History of Native California....
We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive book of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, the book recounts the centrality of the Native presen...
By William J. Bauer Jr., co-author of We Are the Land: A History of Native California
This guest post is part of our #OAH2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more and get 40% off the book.
In late April 2020, my co-author, Damon Akins, and I submitted the f...