14 Facts About Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was born on September 10,1938 and is an American historian, writer, professor, and activist based in San Francisco.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has written numerous books including Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra Years, Red Dirt: Growing up Okie, and An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is professor emeritus in Ethnic Studies at California State University.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz later married writer Simon J Ortiz.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz graduated from San Francisco State College in 1963, majoring in history.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz began graduate study in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley but transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles completing her doctorate in history there in 1974.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz contributed the piece "Female liberation as the basis for social revolution" to the 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz edited the book The Great Sioux Nation, which was published in 1977 and presented as the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indians of the Americas, held at United Nations' headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz edited two anthologies on Native American economic development while heading the Institute for Native American Development at the University of New Mexico.

In 1981, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was asked to visit Sandinista Nicaragua to appraise the land tenure situation of the Miskito Indians in the northeastern region of the country.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz tells of these years in Caught in the Crossfire: The Miskitu Indians of Nicaragua and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz compares this form of religious bigotry to the modern-day conquests of al-Qaeda.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward.