Journeys Toward Justice – History Revoiced: Opening the Classroom to Stories that Change Our World

Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.

History Revoiced: Opening the Classroom to Stories that Change Our World

The genocide that happened to Native peoples in California has been conclusively documented. But we have barely begun to confront its cultural, historical, and emotional impact.The University of California, Berkeley, sits on indigenous land and still holds over 10,000 unrepatriated ancestors. In the wake of this unacknowledged genocide in which higher education has been complicit, how can university classrooms and students grapple with this legacy? Can classrooms truly partner with native communities and educators to imagine new institutional spaces and ways of learning? This multi-year partnership between a Berkeley class and Tribal leaders from the Eastern Sierra’s Payahuunadü (renamed the Owens Valley) asks these questions.

Speakers: Kathy Bancroft, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation and Cultural Resources Monitor for Owens Lake, Pat Steenland, Continuing Lecturer for the College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley, and UC Berkeley students Sera Smith and Sage Alexander

Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley’s Public Service Center

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