Were going to talk about a very piece of california history which is not ignore ward, but certainly overlook it most of the time and so we have Jean Pfaelzer here with a new book, california a slave state. And were going to go through the history that im going to talk about the ideas behind it a little bit and also her work on the reparation committee. So jeanie, thanks so much for for joining us at the Commonwealth Club. Thank you. Im glad to be back here. Thank you so as i said, lets start with history. So lets go back as far you into this history as we go we wont go all the way back to the native american tribes, but thats a good place to stop it. Lets do terminology first. In your book, you use lots different terminologies. Native americans native indians. How you make that choice. First of all, you use a lot of different. But i know that this is sort of a an important issue because a lot of tribes, like certain names, dont like other names. And i thought, how did you make your aca
Were going to talk about a very piece of california history which is not ignore ward, but certainly overlook it most of the time and so we have Jean Pfaelzer here with a new book, california a slave state. And were going to go through the history that im going to talk about the ideas behind it a little bit and also her work on the reparation committee. So jeanie, thanks so much for for joining us at the Commonwealth Club. Thank you. Im glad to be back here. Thank you so as i said, lets start with history. So lets go back as far you into this history as we go we wont go all the way back to the native american tribes, but thats a good place to stop it. Lets do terminology first. In your book, you use lots different terminologies. Native americans native indians. How you make that choice. First of all, you use a lot of different. But i know that this is sort of a an important issue because a lot of tribes, like certain names, dont like other names. And i thought, how did you make your aca
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