An Afternoon with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

A year after the NoDAPL protests in North Dakota and on the heels of the deadliest mass shooting in American history, American Book Award author and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will speak to a large audience at Verge Center of the Arts on America’s violent colonial past and how it’s inextricably tied to our violent present.

Her latest work, Loaded: a Disarming History of the Second Amendment, discloses the history of the Second Amendment, revealing its relation to settler colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy.

Join NoDAPL Sacramento and the Democratic Socialists of America, Sacramento for an afternoon with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz as she discusses her latest work and answers audience questions about the meaning of American gun culture. Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. After receiving her PhD 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.

Introduction and opening prayer will be lead by Marge Grow-Eppard (Sister Who Walks With Bears).