California Humanities Launches Reclaiming Our Stories: Voices of Indigenous Peoples of California

Recorded live at the Autry Museum of the American West What does sovereignty look like when it is lived every day? In the final episode of Reclaiming Our Stories: Voices of Indigenous Peoples of California , California Humanities brings together Indigenous leaders, culture bearers, and community members for a powerful live conversation exploring the future of tribal sovereignty. Recorded before a...

What happens in the space between recognition and justice? In Episode 5, Recognition, Rights, and the Space Between—Law & Policy Now, host Victorio L. Shaw speaks with Michelle Lee (Pit River, Cahuilla) and Nicole Myers-Lim (Pomo) about the realities Native communities face when law, policy, and lived experience do not align. The conversation explores federal and state recognition, consultatio...

What happens when we stop imagining cities as separate from Indigenous land? In Episode 4 of Reclaiming Our Stories: Voices of Indigenous Peoples of California , host Victorio L. Shaw speaks with Cindi Alvitre (Tongva) and Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) about Native presence, belonging, and responsibility within urban California. Together, they challenge the assumption that Indigenous identity exis...

Episode 3, We Tell Our Own Stories , centers on Indigenous narrative sovereignty and the ongoing work of carrying the story forward. Hosted by Victorio L. Shaw, this episode creates space for reflection on what it means for Indigenous peoples to speak for themselves, protect cultural knowledge, and shape public understanding on their own terms. Terria Smith (Cahuilla) opens the conversation by ref...

In “Whose 250 Years?”, Story Weaver Victorio Shaw (Hoopa Valley Tribe) is joined by Georgiana Sanchez (Chumash, O'odham) and Judge Abby Abinanti (Yurok) for a conversation that challenges dominant historical timelines and asks a central question: Whose years are being counted? Through reflections on layered colonialisms in California, Indigenous governance, constitutional contradiction, and the en...

Welcome to Reclaiming Our Stories: Voices of Indigenous Peoples of California. In this opening episode, Story Weaver Victorio Shaw invites you to arrive—not just to listen, but to enter into a relationship with story, land, and truth. As conversations around the United States Semiquincentennial begin to take shape, this series asks a different question: Whose stories are being told—and whose have...

Welcome to Reclaiming Our Stories: Voices of Indigenous Peoples of California, a new podcast series from California Humanities. Hosted and story-woven by the Honorable Victorio L. Shaw, Esq., this six-episode series centers on Indigenous voices, leadership, and lived experiences from across California. Through conversations with tribal leaders, artists, educators, and advocates, the series explore...