Indigenous Justice: Looking for a Future

How do stories help us challenge, shape, and navigate our
democracy? In this two-part series created with Voice of Witness,
we’ll explore oral histories as powerful tools of resistance and
belonging. In this first episode, host Maya Rupert sits down with
Ashley Hemmers, a member of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, whose
path winds from growing up on her reservation to attending Yale
to returning home again. Now a tribal administrator, Ashley
shares how storytelling is both a bridge to the past and a
pathway to her tribe’s future. 


This episode is created in partnership with Voice of Witness, an
oral history nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying
the stories of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice.
To learn more, visit voiceofwitness.org.


You can read Ashley’s full story in the Voice of Witness book How
We Go Home, along with the powerful oral histories of eleven
other Indigenous narrators fighting for justice:
https://voiceofwitness.org/books/how-we-go-home-voices-from-indigenous-north-america/


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