Fiona Apple on Acknowledging Indigenous Lands with Native American activist Eryn Wise

How great is this?

And if an artist doesn't put some light on such stories, who will?

Well done.

Fiona Apple on New Album “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” 

& Acknowledging Indigenous Lands 

- On Democracy Now

“I’ve heard that it’s actually making people feel free and happy,” Apple said, “and it might be helping people feel alive or feel their anger or feel creative. And that’s the best thing that I could hope for.” 

Her record includes an acknowledgment that the album was “Made on unceded Tongva, Mescalero Apache, and Suma territories.” 

We also speak with Native American activist Eryn Wise, an organizer with Seeding Sovereignty, an Indigenous-led collective that launched a rapid response initiative to help Indigenous communities affected by the outbreak.


More here: https://truthout.org/video/fiona-apple-on-her-new-album-and-acknowledging-indigenous-lands/


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In relation, here is the most powerful book I worked on in the past few years about the history of North America, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. I worked with her at Velvet Film. 
Eye-opening: https://reddirtsite.com

AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Authors: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Debbie Reese, Jean Mendoza

Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples’ resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism.

Going beyond the story of America as a country “discovered” by a few brave men in the “New World,” Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity.

The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, author, memoirist, and speaker who researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.

Roxanne 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 she is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. After receiving her Ph.D. 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.