Episodes

  • The final episode of our 3 part special series explores a variety of ways to show solidarity with Palestine, with a focus on the Indigenous People's Sunrise Gathering at Alcatraz last Fall. We are publishing during escalating police and institutional repression against Palestine solidarity encampments which are spreading rapidly on college and university campuses.

    Audio editing: Daniel Stonebloom

    Interviews: Martin Rizzo-Martinez

    Music: G. Gonzales

    Sounds recorded at Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony, Nov 2023, by Lloyd Molina IV

    Speakers:

    Dr. Lila Sharif

    Corrina Gould

    Morning Star Gali

    Dr. Randa May Wahbe

    Dr. Stephanie Lumsden

    Dr. Mark Minch-de Leon

    Dr. Nour Joudah

    Rana Sharif

    Dr. Brittani Orona

    Dr. Vanessa Esquivido

    Dr. Jennifer Mogannam

    Links:

    Indigenous Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz, 2024

    Indigenous People for a Free Palestine

    Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation

    National Students for Justice in Palestine

    To Palestine with Love - A Message of Peace from Turtle Island

    The Red Lake Nation & Its Solidarity with Palestine

    Palestinian Feminist Collective

    Palestinian Youth Movement

    “All Out For Palestine“

    American Muslims for Palestine

    Palestinian American Cultural Center

    Arab Resource and Organizing Center

    US Palestinian Community Network

    US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

    BDS site

    The Palestine Project

    SWANA Region Radio Podcast

  • Part 2 of 3 part series. As a podcast focused on illuminating ongoing colonialism and genocide, we recognize the need to address genocide happening right now in occupied Palestine and to stand in solidarity. Our podcast is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Indigenous communities who are left out of official discourse. As such, it is important to amplify the voices of Palestinians right now, as the mainstream media fails to do so. Part 2 explores LandBack and Right of Return as well as the ways in which alternative media is helping illuminate what is happening right now. We are grateful for the time and knowledge shared by our interviewees, and hope that this series can contribute to greater understanding, solidarity, and activism in the movement towards a free Palestine.

    Audio editing: Daniel Stonebloom

    Interviews: Martin Rizzo-Martinez

    Music: G. Gonzales

    Sounds recorded at Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony, Nov 2023, by Lloyd Molina IV

    Interviewees:

    Dr. Lila Sharif

    Corrina Gould

    Dr. Stephanie Lumsden

    Dr. Mark Minch-de Leon

    Dr. Nour Joudah

    Rana Sharif

    Dr. Brittani Orona

    Dr. Vanessa Esquivido

    Dr. Jennifer Mogannam

    Links:

    The Right of Return is Landback

    The Right of Return is Land Back: A Statement of Solidarity with Palestine

    Decolonize Palestine

    Brownwashing and Indigenous Normalization of Zionism

    The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations

    ‘This Is a Colonial War’: Historian Rashid Khalidi on Israel, Gaza & the Future of Palestine

    “More than Genocide: The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense"

    Palestinian Support for Indigenous Peoples’ Day Commemorations and Historical Justice from Palestine to Turtle Island

    Indigenous and Arab organizers stand in solidarity with Water Protectors Resisting Line 3 Pipeline

    Land Back from Turtle Island to Palestine

    When Settler Becomes Native Examining the claim of Jewish indigeneity in the land of Israel

    Leaked NYT Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory.”

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  • This three part series was inspired by the outpouring of solidarity statements and gatherings by Indigenous Californian communities. As a podcast focused on illuminating ongoing colonialism and genocide, we recognize that it is crucial to address the genocide happening right now in occupied Palestine and to stand in solidarity. Our podcast is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Indigenous communities who are frequently left out of official discourse. As such, it is important to amplify the voices of Palestinians right now, as the mainstream media fails to do so. This 3 part series is intended to amplify the voices of Palestinians and Indigenous Californians as they identify parallels between experiences of settler colonialism in both Palestine and California. We are grateful for the time and knowledge shared by our interviewees, and hope that this series can contribute to greater understanding, solidarity, and activism in the movement towards a free Palestine.

    Audio editing: Daniel Stonebloom

    Interviews: Martin Rizzo-Martinez

    Music: G. Gonzales

    Sounds recorded at Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony, Nov 2023, by Lloyd Molina IV

    Interviewees:

    Dr. Lila Sharif

    Corrina Gould

    Dr. Stephanie Lumsden

    Dr. Mark Minch-de Leon

    Morning Star Gali

    Dr. Nour Joudah

    Rana Sharif

    Dr. Brittani Orona

    Dr. Randa May Wahbe

    Dr. Vanessa Esquivido

    Dr. Jennifer Mogannam

    Links:

    CISSA’s Statement on Palestine

    Red Nation: Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine

    Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine Letter (to sign)

    Palestinian olive farmers hold tight to their roots amid surge in settler attacks, by Vidal

    The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth, Malm

    “Ethnic cleansing and the formation of settler colonial geographies,” Gordon & Ram

    Vanishing Palestine, Lila Sharif

    Savory Politics: Land, Memory, and the Ecological Occupation of Palestine, Sharif

    From the US to Palestine: Indigenous resistance to transnational settler colonialism, Koutteineh

    Settler Moves to Indigeneity: From Canada to Israel, Scribe

    False Messiahs: How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism, Rubin

  • Our 10th and final episode of Season 2 extends our critique on the history of colonial acquisitions and collections with a focus on the colonial legacies of the institutions of Museums. We focus on the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, recent movements to 'decolonize' museums as with the Museum of Us in San Diego, and discuss whether it is possible to ultimately decolonize these institutions.

    Speakers:

    Dr. Amy Lonetree (enrolled citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation), Dr. Alírio Karina, Dr. Samuel Redman, Gregg Castro (t'rowt'raahl Salinan / Rumsien & Ramaytush Ohlone), Dr. Cutcha Risling-Baldy (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk), Nicole Lim (Pomo), Dr. Micah Parzen, Dr. Chris Green

    Audio editing: Daniel Stonebloom

    Interviews: Martin Rizzo-Martinez

    Music: G. Gonzales

    Special advisor on this episode: Kathleen Aston.

    Links & Further Reading:

    California Indian Museum & Cultural Center

    Acorn Bites

    Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums, Amy Lonetree

    The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations, Edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb

    “Decolonizing Museums, Memorials, and Monuments,” The Public Historian, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 21–27 (November 2021), Amy Lonetree

    Museum of Us

    “Race: Are we so different?” Exhibit

    Museum of Us: Colonial Pathways Policy

    Against and Beyond the Museum, Alírio Karina

  • Episode 9 explores the ways in which colonialism and colonial collections have impacted the development of archives, and the restrictions of these spaces. We follow the stories of Indigenous scholars who have worked to reclaim Indigenous knowledge, songs, and documents from archival collections. We also explore questions of data sovereignty, digital sovereignty, and intellectual property rights.

    As discussed throughout Season 2, colonial extraction and collections have resulted in the theft of Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous bodies, and so much more. Previous episodes have explored issues of 'salvage anthropology' and repatriation. This episode shifts the focus to efforts to reclaim Indigenous knowledge, whether that be in the form of songs, wax cylinders, documents, letters, or other forms stored in colonial archives.

    The speakers in this episode include:

    Dr. Robin R. R. Gray (Ts’msyen/Cree)

    Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva)

    Carolyn Rodriguez (Amah Mutsun)

    Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky (Tonawanda Band of Seneca)

    Links for further reading:

    "Cahuilla Basket Returns Home," by Emily Clarke, August 12, 2022, in News from Native California.

    CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance

    GIDA, Global Indigenous Data Alliance: Promoting Indigenous Control of Indigenous Data

    Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance: Research, Policy, and Practice for Indigenous Data Sovereignty

    "Indigenous Digital Sovereignty: From the Digital Divide to Digital Equity," by Davida Delmar, Jul 19, 2023

    "Ts'msyen Revolution: The Poetics and Politics of Reclaiming," Robin R.R. Gray Dissertation.

    Dr. Robin Gray: “Embodied Heritage: Enactments of Indigenous Sovereignty” (video)

    "Toypurina: Our Lady of Sorrows," Weshoyot Alvitre, Kickstarter

    Theft Is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory, Robert Nichols

    Challenging Colonialism is produced by Daniel Stonebloom & Martin Rizzo-Martinez. All interviews by Martin, all audio engineering and editing by Daniel. All music by G. Gonzales. The title of this episode comes from Dr. Robin Gray.

  • Episode 8 features an interview with Marion Martinez and her daughter, Veronica, both of whom are members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. They will be speaking about Marion’s great grandmother, Ascencion Solorsano de Cervantes, and mother, Martha Herrerra. Ascencion, who passed away in 1930, was the last fluent Mutsun speaker and one of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s beloved ancestors.

    In 1929, Ascencion spent three months with Ethnographer and linguist John Peabody Harrington, who recorded thousands of pages of notes on Mutsun language, culture and history. Today, Marion, Veronica, and many other Amah Mutsun Tribal members draw on these important notes to learn about their ancestors. This season we have featured a series of stories about ’salvage anthropology’ and the damage done by scholars and activists towards Indigenous communities. This story helps show the complexity of this history, and ways in which contemporary Indigenous community members can sometimes draw on these records in important ways.

    The speakers in this episode are: Veronica Martinez & Marion Martinez, both Amah Mutsun, interviewed by Martin Rizzo-Martinez.

    Links for further reading:

    Maria Ascención Solórsano (de Garcia y de Cervantes), Ed Ketchum, Amah Mutsun Tribal Historian (and descendant of Ascención)

    The Long Journey to Revitalize a Native Language, University of Arizona News, Feb. 16, 2016

    Reviving deep-rooted knowledge, Lisa Renner, UCSC NewsCenter, November 23, 2021

    The Amah Mutsun's Battle to Preserve, Mark R. Day, ICT News, Sept 13, 2018

    The Saint of Gilroy who helped save her culture and language, Robert Eliason, Benito Link, January 23, 2021

    A Native American's Last Testament: Opera, Sasha Khokha, NPR Music, March 29, 2008

    Ohlone/Costanoan Indians of the San Francisco Peninsula and their Neighbors, Yesterday and Today, Randall Milliken, Laurence H. Shoup, and Beverly R. Ortiz, 2009

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (documentary), PBS

    Challenging Colonialism is produced by Daniel Stonebloom & Martin Rizzo-Martinez. All interviews by Martin, all audio engineering and editing by Daniel. All music by G. Gonzales.

  • Episode 7 [1:37:47] explores the complexities of what is known as Federal Recognition, and the Federal Recognition Process, which relate to Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. This is an extremely complex topic, especially in relation to Native Californian Tribes. Our guests, Dr. Olivia Chilcote (a member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians), and Dr. Vanessa Esquivido (an enrolled member of the Nor Rel Muk Wintu Nation, who is also Hupa & Xicana), both have expertise in the process as it relates to their Tribes' attempts to achieve Federal Recognition. And yet, this conversation just scratches the surface of this complex topic.

    In this episode, we depart from our usual format. This episode features a conversation about Federal Recognition between Dr. Chilcote and Dr. Esquivido, facilitated by our co-producer Dr. Martin Rizzo-Martinez and lightly edited by Daniel Stonebloom. Music by G. Gonzales.

    For additional information on Federal Recognition, please see the following:

    Dr. Olivia Chilcote's new book Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians is now available for pre-order!

    The Process and The People: Federal Recognition in California, Native American Identity, and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, 2017 Dissertation by Olivia Chilcote

    “Time Out of Mind”: The San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians and the Historical Origins of a Struggle for Federal Recognition, by Olivia Chilcote, California History Journal 2019.

    "Unsettling evidence: an anticolonial archival approach/reproach to Federal Recognition," by María Montenegro, 2019.

    "The Destruction of Identity: Cultural Genocide and Indigenous Peoples," by Lindsay Kingston, 2015.

    "Creating the Space to Reimagine and Rematriate Beyond a Settler-Colonial Present: The Importance of Land Rematriation and ‘Land Back’ for Non-Federally Recognized California Native Nations," 2022 Dissertation by Cheyenne Reynoso.

    "The study of indigenous political economies and colonialism in Native California: Implications for contemporary tribal groups and federal recognition,” by Kent G. Lightfoot, Lee M. Panich, Tsim D. Schneider, Sara L. Gonzalez, Matthew A Russell, Darren Modzelewski, Theresa Molino, and Elliot H. Blair, 2013.

  • The final part in this 3-episode series continues our focus on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), where we focus on CalNAGPRA, California’s effort to strengthen NAGPRA, as well as other steps taken to improve and refine this difficult process. But we will also hear about resistance to following through on the promises of NAGPRA as well, and hear a few longer personal narratives than in previous episodes, including all-too-rare success stories of repatriation.

    As always, thank you to the guests who gave their time and shared their stories:

    Dr. Brittani Orona

    Sabine Talaugon

    Desireé Martinez

    Dr. Vanessa Esquivido

    Gregg Castro

    Cindi Alvitre

    Alexii Sigona

    For further reading and more information:

    The Social Life of Basket Caps: Repatriation Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, in Hopes of Cultural Revitalization, Vanessa Esquivido

    How to Report on the Repatriation of Native American Remains at Museums and Universities Near You, Pro Publica, February 2023.

    Righting Historic Wrongs

    Ceremony memorializes reburial of indigenous people’s remains at Cal State Long Beach, Press Telegram, September 2016.

    Reburying the Past, September 2016.

    After 70 Years, UC Berkeley Museum Returns Massacre Remains to Wiyot Tribe, February, 2022.

    U.S. Army Corps, UC Berkeley Repatriate Human Remains to Wiyot Tribe, North Coast Journal of Politics, People & Art, January 2022.

    UC Berkeley Anthropology Museum Returns 1860 Massacre Remains To Wiyot Tribe

    Challenging Colonialism is produced by Daniel Stonebloom & Martin Rizzo-Martinez. All interviews by Martin, all audio engineering and editing by Daniel. All music by G. Gonzales. The title of this episode comes from Dr. Anthony Burris.

    This podcast is produced with support from California State Parks Foundation

  • Part 2 in this 3-episode series continues our broad focus on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). As always, thank you to the guests who gave their time and shared their stories. This episode includes significant discussion of how ancestral remains, funerary objects, sacred items, and objects of cultural patrimony have been collected in the past, continue to be disturbed in the present, as well as the process of repatriation and reburial. This is an extremely sensitive topic, but a very important one that deals with basic human rights and respect, or the lack thereof, and we want to make this clear up front. This topic understandably may be triggering for some. You will hear people discussing in detail the ways in which their ancestors’ bodies have been and continue to be mistreated. Please take care while listening.

    Speakers:

    Gregg Castro

    Sabine Talaugon

    Dr. Brittani Orona

    Dr. Anthony Burris

    Dr. Vanessa Esquivido

    Cindi Alvitre

    Desireé Martinez

    Additional Reading:

    To share Native American culture and history the right way, artifacts should always be returned to tribes, San Diego Union Tribune, November 2022

    UCSB out of compliance with state, federal laws for decades; works to return Native remains, Daily Nexus, March 2023

    How to Report on the Repatriation of Native American Remains at Museums and Universities Near You, Pro Publica, February 2023.

    UC Riverside slow to return Native American artifacts to tribes audit

    Challenging Colonialism is produced by Daniel Stonebloom & Martin Rizzo-Martinez. All interviews by Martin, all audio engineering and editing by Daniel. All music by G. Gonzales. The title of this episode comes from Brittani Orona.

    This podcast is produced with support from California State Parks Foundation.

  • Part 1 in this 3-episode series focuses on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). As always, thank you to the guests who gave their time and shared their stories. This episode includes significant discussion of how ancestral remains, funerary objects, sacred items, and objects of cultural patrimony have been collected in the past, continue to be disturbed in the present, as well as the process of repatriation and reburial. This is an extremely sensitive topic, but a very important one that deals with basic human rights and respect, or the lack thereof, and we want to make this clear up front. This topic understandably may be triggering for some. You will hear people discussing in detail the ways in which their ancestors’ bodies have been and continue to be mistreated. Please take care while listening.

    Speakers:

    Sabine Talaugon

    Dr. Brittani Orona

    Cindi Alvitre

    Dr. Vanessa Esquivido

    Dr. Anthony Burris

    Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy

    Dr. Desireé Martinez

    Alexii Sigona

    Additional Reading:

    "Continued Disembodiment: NAGPRA, CAL NAGPRA, and Recognition” by Brittani Orona and Vanessa Esquivido

    Propublica database for institutions holding human remains or burial artifacts

    Our Story Lives Forever [documentary short by Sacred Lands Films]

    Carrying Our Ancestors Home website: https://www.coah-repat.com/

    “Returning the tataayiyam honuuka' (Ancestors) to the Correct Home: The Importance of Background Investigations for NAGPRA Claims,” by Desireé R. Martinez, Wendy G. Teeter, Karimah Kennedy-Richardson

    “The Politics of Archaeology: Diverse Concerns and Interests at the West Bluffs Project, Los Angeles, California,” by John G. Douglass, Cindi Alvitre, and, Jeffrey H. Altschul

    Challenging Colonialism is produced by Daniel Stonebloom & Martin Rizzo-Martinez. All interviews by Martin, all audio engineering and editing by Daniel. All music by G. Gonzales. The title of this episode comes from Cindi Alvitre.

    This podcast is produced with support from California State Parks Foundation.

  • Episode 3 continues and deepens our critique of academia's extractive and complex relationship with Native California by examining the history of one of California’s most renowned and celebrated anthropologists, Alfred L. Kroeber. Kroeber helped establish the school of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and, up until 2021, his name adorned UC Berkeley’s Kroeber Hall. This episode examines Kroeber & his legacy, the life of a Native man known as Ishi, and the renaming of Kroeber hall, from the perspectives of Indigenous Californians.

    Speakers:

    Dr. Cutcha Risling-Baldy (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk)

    Dr. Brittani Orona (Hoopa Valley Tribe)

    Mark Hylkema

    Dr. Samuel J. Redman

    Cindi Alvitre (Tongva, co-founder of the Ti'at Society)

    Alexii Sigona (Amah Mutsun Tribal Band)

    Dr. Vanessa Esquivido (Nor Rel Muk Wintu, also Hupa and Xicana)

    Additional reading:

    We are Dancing for You, by Cutcha Risling Baldy

    Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "Wild" Indian, by Orin Starn

    “Alfred Kroeber’s Handbook and Land Claims: Anthros, Agents, and Federal (Un)Acknowledgment in Native California,” by Nicholas Barron

    A Top UC Berkeley Professor Taught With Remains That May Include Dozens of Native Americans, ProPublica article, March 5th, 2023.

    Alfred Kroeber and his Relations with California Indians, by Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, July 24, 2020.

    Grave robbing at UC Berkeley: A history of failed repatriation, Sage Alexander, December 5, 2020.

    L.A. Times Editorial: ​​The real way UC Berkeley can make up for disrespect toward Native Americans, January 31, 2021.

    Challenging Colonialism is produced by Daniel Stonebloom & Martin Rizzo-Martinez. All interviews by Martin, all audio engineering and editing by Daniel. All music by G. Gonzales.

    This podcast is produced with support from California State Parks Foundation.

  • Episode 2 follows the introductory episode with a deeper dive into Salvage Anthropology and its origins. Academic study of Indigenous cultures in California trace back to scholars such as Franz Boas and Aleš Hrdlička. They were both proponents of what was called ‘Salvage Anthropology’ - the belief that Indigenous communities were dying and making way for modern society. These beliefs were built upon problematic eurocentric ideas of culture and value. And, at the same time, the recordings and interviews of these early scholars are today helping some Indigenous communities reconnect with ancestral knowledge and insights. This episode delves into this complicated history.

    Speakers:

    Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk)

    Dr. Samuel J Redman

    Cindi Alvitre (Tongva)

    Dr. Robin R. R. Gray (Ts’msyen/Cree)

    Mark Hylkema

    Interviews conducted by Martin Rizzo-Martinez; music by G.Gonzales; audio production by Daniel Stonebloom

    This podcast is supported by California State Parks Foundation

    Resources for more information:

    Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology

    Samuel J. Redman

    Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence

    Edited by Tsim D. Schneider and Lee M. Panich

    Community-Based Archaeology: Research with, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities

    by Sonya Atalay

    “Towards an Analytic of Survivance in California Archaeology”

    Nate Acebo and Desireé Reneé Martinez

    Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology

    Stephen W. Silliman

    Overcoming Hindrances to Our Enduring Responsibility to the Ancestors Protecting Traditional Cultural Places

    Desireé Reneé Martinez (Tongva)

    Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It

    by Rob Borofsky

  • There is a long legacy of extractive and exploitative relationships in academic study of Indigenous California, seen clearly in the origins of the fields of anthropology, ethnography, & archaeology. These unethical relationships have resulted in colonial collections of Indigenous ancestral remains, funerary objects, songs and ceremonies, and Indigenous knowledge and wisdom, much which still has not been returned to Indigenous communities. This opening episode of Season 2 of Challenging Colonialism offers an overview of this history, helping shed light on why many Native Californians have understandable concerns about working with academics.

    Speakers:

    Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk), The Honorable Ron W. Goode (Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe), Dr. Robin R. R. Gray (Ts’msyen/Cree), Cindi Alvitre (Tongva, co-founder of the Ti'at Society), Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash), Gregg Castro (t'rowt'raahl Salinan / Rumsien & Ramaytush Ohlone), Mark Hylkema, Maia Posten

    Audio editing: Daniel Stonebloom

    Interviews: Martin Rizzo-Martinez

    Music: G. Gonzales

    The title for this episode, Illicit Acquisitions, comes from our interview with Cindi Alvitre.

    Links & Further Reading:

    “Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research ‘on’ to Research ‘with, for, and by’ Indigenous Peoples” By Peter Nelson

    “Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America” By Nicholas C. Laluk , Lindsay M. Montgomery, Rebecca Tsosie, Christine McCleave, Rose Miron, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Joseph Aguilar, Ashleigh Big Wolf Thompson, Peter Nelson, Jun Sunseri, Isabel Trujillo, Georgeann M. Deantoni, Gregg Castro, and Tsim Schneider

    We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies By Cutcha Risling Baldy

    Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity by David Hurst Thomas, Foreword by Vine Deloria Jr.

    Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums Samuel J. Redman

    Supported by California State Parks Foundation

  • Episode 1 will provide an overview of the themes we’ll cover in Season 2. We’re excited to share what we’ve been learning about anthropology, museum collections, archeology, intellectual property, rematriation, and more. You’ll hear about extractive colonial collections from Native Californians who are Challenging Colonialism in California and beyond.

  • Challenging Colonialism returns with Season 2 in January 2023. Stay tuned for the release date.

    This preview includes the voices of:

    Dr. Brittani Orona (Hupa, Hoopa Valley Tribe)

    Steven Pratt (Amah Mutsun)

    Annie Danis

    Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone)

    Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk)

    Gregg Castro (t’rowt’raahl Salinan/Rusein-Ramaytush Ohlone)

    Alexii Sigona (Amah Mutsun)

    Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Mutsun Ohlone)

    Dr. Robin Gray (Ts’msyen)

    Produced by Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Daniel Stonebloom

    Music by G. Gonzales, Supported by California State Parks Foundation

  • Amah Mutsun Tribal Band member Carolyn Rodriguez and Green Foothills Policy and Advocacy Director Alice Kaufman speak about the urgent need to protect Juristac--and how you can contribute.

    Challenging Colonialism is produced by myself, Daniel Stonebloom & Martin Rizzo-Martinez. For this episode, Daniel conducted both interviews as well as the audio engineering and editing. All music by G. Gonzales. Introductory framing by Brittini Orona.

    Follow us on twitter, subscribe, rate and review, and please share and promote this podcast, but this episode in particular, on any of the platforms you use. We want people to participate in this process.

    For additional information & to get involved:

    Homepage: http://www.protectjuristac.org/

    How to take action during the EIR Comment Period: http://www.protectjuristac.org/deir/

    EIR Comment Writing Workshop: http://www.protectjuristac.org/updates/comment-workshop-reportback/

    Santa Clara County's Planning Dept. website with the EIR documents and additional public comment options: https://plandev.sccgov.org/policies-programs/smara/sargent

    Petition: http://www.protectjuristac.org/petition/

    September 10 Rally: http://www.protectjuristac.org/rally/

    Additional Amah Mutsun Tribal Band youtube, including Juristac videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCURANNAvqmZszYS66k4vrzg/videos

    Donate: https://donorbox.org/protectjuristac

    This podcast is produced with support from the California State Parks Foundation https://www.calparks.org/

  • Nichelle Garcia (Winnemem Wintu) talks about the Run 4 Salmon, the 2022 run, its goals and its history. She also discussed inter-tribal solidarity in water and salmon protection, as well as the curriculum and mini-lessons she's contributed to and taught in schools to raise awareness of what's at stake.

    Challenging Colonialism is produced by Daniel Stonebloom & Martin Rizzo-Martinez. This interview was conducted by Martin, with all audio engineering and editing by Daniel. Introductory framing by Brittini Orona.

    All music by G. Gonzales.

    For more information & to get involved: http://run4salmon.org/

    https://youtu.be/nW3Tdn4gIPg

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6YB-25CqmC1dF-nLR3ZKg

    http://run4salmon.org/run4salmon-curriculum/

    http://run4salmon.org/2020-mini-lessons/

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    This podcast is produced with support from the CA State Parks Foundation https://www.calparks.org/

  • This recording is from the second half of a panel entitled “Telling the Truth of the California Missions,” which was part of the Telling and Teaching the Truth of the California Missions event, held on August 27, 2021, preceding the Mission Bell removal.

    Moderator Merri Lopez- Keifer (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) introduced the speakers. She is Senior Advisor to the Tribal Council San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, and introduced Dr. Lee Panich and his talk titled “Centering Ohlone Presence at Mission Santa Clara and Santa Clara University." Dr. Panich is the co-editor with Tsim Schneider of the book Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence, author of Narratives of Persistence: Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California, and of his recent article from which this talk is focused, "Archaeology, Indigenous erasure, and the creation of white public space at the California missions."

    Dr. Panich was followed by Alexii Sigona (Amah Mutsun) and Annie Taylor, both of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley giving a talk entitled “Revitalizing Reciprocal Relations with Land: Amah Mutsun Pathways to Reconnection.”

    To support the work to Protect Juristac discussed by Sigona and Taylor, see the following petition:

    http://www.protectjuristac.org/petition/

    Video of these talks can also be found at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxS2NYQRTNI

    Telling and Teaching the Truth of the California Missions was co-sponsored by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation, the UC Santa Cruz American Indian Resource Center, the University of California Critical Mission Studies Program, & California State Parks.

    Additional information on the Critical Mission Studies Program can be found here: https://criticalmissionstudies.ucsd.edu/

    Music by G. Gonzales

    This podcast is supported by the California State Parks Foundation: https://www.calparks.org/

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  • Beginning in the 1880s, Indian Boarding Schools across the country operated with the stated goal to “kill the Indian and save the man.” These institutions were key to U.S. policies that aimed to assimilate native children by removing ties to their own cultures. This episode examines the history of the Boarding Schools that impacted thousands of Indigenous Californian children, specifically focusing on Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, Stewart Indian School in Reno, and Saint Boniface Indian School in Banning.

    Speakers:

    Tara Baugas (Diné), Dr. Kevin Whalen, Amanda Wixon (Chickasaw/Choctaw), Dr. Daisy Ocampo (Caz’ Ahmo Nation of Zacatecas, Mexico), Dr. Jean Keller, Dr. Samantha Williams, Dr. Katie Keliiaa (Yerington Paiute and Washoe), & Kelly Leah Stewart (Luiseño & Gabrieliño-Tongva).

    Audio editing by Daniel Stonebloom / Interviews by Martin Rizzo-Martinez

    The title of this episode, Colonialism Through Education, comes from our interview with Kelly Leah Stewart.

    Music by G. Gonzales

    Supported by the California State Parks Foundation: https://www.calparks.org/

    Links & Further Reading:

    Brave Hearts: A Visual History of Sherman Indian Boarding School

    Recording of virtual launch of “Brave Hearts”

    Salt Song Trail (Film about the Salt Songs of the Southern NUWUVI (Paiute People), who gathered at the Sherman Institute to sing for children who never returned home

    National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

    Sherman Indian Museum

    Stewart Indian School

    St. Boniface Indian School & Cemetery

    Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories

    University of Manotoba - National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

    Kevin Whalen, Native Students at Work: American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute’s Outing Program, 1900-1945

    Jean Keller, Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902-1922

    Samantha M. Williams: Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890-2020

    Kelly Leah Stewart (Re)writing and (Re)righting California Indian Histories: Legacies of Saint Boniface Indian Industrial School, 1890-1935

  • This recording is from the first half of a panel entitled “Telling the Truth of the California Missions,” which was part of the Telling and Teaching the Truth of the California Missions event, held on August 27, 2021, preceding the Mission Bell removal.

    Moderator Merri Lopez- Keifer (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) introduced the speakers. She is Senior Advisor to the Tribal Council San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians. Dr. Stanley Rodriguez and Dr. Bernard Gordillo follow:

    “Impact of Missions on Language, Culture, Land Claims, and Spirituality,” Dr. Stanley Rodriguez (Kumeyaay) Director and President Kumeyaay Community College and Councilman of the Santa Ysabel Kumeyaay Nation.

    “Sounds, Silences, and Vestiges of California Mission Bells,” Dr. Bernard Gordillo, Postdoctoral Associate of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University.

    Video of this talk can also be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEkL637VDuc&t=2s

    Telling and Teaching the Truth of the California Missions was co-sponsored by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation, the UC Santa Cruz American Indian Resource Center, the University of California Critical Mission Studies Program, and California State Parks.

    Additional information on the Critical Mission Studies Program can be found here: https://criticalmissionstudies.ucsd.edu/

    Music by G. Gonzales

    This podcast produced with support from the California State Parks Foundation: https://www.calparks.org/

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