![]() I grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Meredith McCoy: We live in a time when we as a nation are grappling with our memories of the past and their role in our future, particularly with regard to slavery and the Civil War. The telling of history is not static, and how we remember history changes as we listen to different voices and perspectives. ![]() Reséndez’ comments about California remind me that the stories we were told as students-even stories that are viewed as "canonical history"-may not always tell the full story. ![]() Andrés Reséndez, who we’ll continue to hear from in today’s episode. I call it in my book a piñata of laws that enable people to exploit natives in different ways. ![]() Andrés Reséndez: The canonical history of the West is that California joined the union as a quote-unquote, "free soil state." But a coalition of Americans living in California, along with old Mexican ranchers who came to dominate the early politics of California, drafted the so-called Act for the Protection of Indians of 1850. ![]()
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