Dr. LaNada War Jack, member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, scholar, educator, author and leader discusses her book, Native Resistance, and her work during and after the occupation of Alcatraz Island.
In January of 1968 War Jack was the first Native American student enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated with honors in an Independent Major of Native American Law & Politics. While attending UC Berkeley, Dr. War Jack participated as the first Native American component of the first Ethnic Studies Program in the UC statewide effort in establishing Native American Studies, African American Studies, Chicano Studies and Asian Studies. She is the author of Native Resistance An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life.
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