Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Special guest lecture for Dr. Andrew Lamas's Urban Studies class, "Liberation and Ownership." Visiting Faculty Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Professor Emerita and author of the newly released book, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, will speak about her research into the histories of colonization, dispossession, settler colonialism, and genocide on the North American continent. Dr. Dunbar-Ortiz, who helped to develop the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies at California State University, has been a longtime member of the American Indian Movement and the International Indian Treaty Council. She is also the author of The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and its Struggle for Sovereignty (1977), Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico (1980), Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997), Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years (2002), and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War (2005). 

Dr. Lamas's class focuses on anticapitalist and liberation theories, with particular attention to historical and contemporary popular struggles and movements of resistance, including local efforts. This evening event will begin with remarks from local community organizers, and a brief talk by Dr. Margaret Bruchac (Abenaki), Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Penn. 

For more information on An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, see Dunbar-Ortiz's October 18, 2014 interview on "The Real News."