Know We Are Here: Native Visibility in the University
October 6, 2023 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Join editor Terria Smith for a riveting panel drawing upon the insights shared in the anthology Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance.
The panel will focus on the histories and dynamics of life in Native California. The discussion will examine the resistance to colonialism through the reclamation of culture and language, and how these particular challenges play out in the university system for native students.
Collecting over twenty-five essays written by more than fifteen California Indian authors, Know We Are Here surveys many of the ways California’s Indigenous communities are resisting the legacies of genocide. Focusing on the particular histories, challenges, and dynamics of life in Native California—which are often very different from elsewhere in the United States—the book collects essays from writers across the state.
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Terria Smith
Terria Smith is a tribal member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians and a proud original Californian. She is the editor of News from Native California magazine and director of the Berkeley Roundhouse, Heyday's California Indian publishing program. Smith is also the editor of the 2023 anthology Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance. She received her undergraduate degree at Cal Poly Humboldt (formerly Humboldt State University) and earned her master's degree at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She lives on her ancestral homelands in the Coachella Valley with her puppy Havana.
