Native Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life

In 1969, Dr. LaNada War Jack and students throughout California united together to take over Alcatraz Island in peaceful protest against the federal government's ill treatment of the Native Indigenous people and the federal government's repeatedly breaking of treaties with tribes. This ended the Indian Termination Policies, beginning the self determination era and facilitated certain subsequent government funded policies for Indian Tribes' Nation wide while recovering millions of acres of land back.

Dr. War Jack's latest book, Native Resistance, chronicles the events tied to the genocide of Native people in the United States — from forced removal to federal reservations and her life during the late sixties at UC Berkeley, the Occupation of Alcatraz Island, Pyramid Lake Water War in Nevada, to the Standing Rock Resistance in North Dakota.

Dr. LaNada War Jack is a member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes where she lives on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. Her daughter, Jessica James, the Youth Manager of Shoshone Bannock Tribes.