Produced By: Loyen Redhawk Gali & Catherine Jackson, with assistance from Morningstar Gali & Taweah Garcia -“To explain the many layers of the Indigenous People of the so called Americas, you would have to look at a map without borders. Tribe’s ancestral territories span across states and across man made country borderlines from the North to the South. California has a long history of injustice to Indigenous People. The history of government termination acts effect how California tribes exist today. California Indians have had to navigate survival through a timeline of federal Indian policy. Each federal Indian policy was a government experiment of trial and error and had long term effects that are still visible and present to this day. “You will hear how regardless of federal recognition, they continue to move forward and revitalize language. They are culture bearers, educators, they work within their tribes, and they are basket makers.”