Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born September 10, 1938) is an American historian, writer, professor, and activist based in San Francisco. Born in Texas, she grew up in Oklahoma and is a social justice and feminist activist. She has written numerous books including, Red Dirt: Growing up Okie (1992), Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra Years (2005), and An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014). She is professor emerita in ethnic studies at California State University.