in history at the University of California at Los Angeles, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades, and she is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. Not “ A Nation of Immigrants” Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion will be published in August 2021. She is author or editor of fifteen books, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States and a historical-memoir trilogy: Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, author, and memoirist who researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.
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