Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, child of a tenant farming family. She received the BA in History at San Francisco State College, and the Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in History at the University of California, Los Angeles, the MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College, and the Diploma in the International and Comparative Law of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. A historian, writer, and professor emeritus at California State University, she is author or editor of fifteen books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico; An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States; Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment; and Not “A Nation of Immigrants” Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. She is at work on a book of essays on Christian Nationalism in the US to be published in 2023.