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What the 'California Dream' means to indigenous peoples

  • Written by Olivia Chilcote, Assistant Professor Department of American Indian Studies, San Diego State University

The California Dream is a myth for many California Indian peoples and tribes.

Since settlers arrived, California Indians’ reality has largely been one of land dispossession, cultural assimilation and even genocide.

If California Indians were to design their own dream it would place decolonization at its core. Decolonization is the undoing of...

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