This episode is an exploration of how colonialism shaped the history of the site on which the Santa Cruz Tannery (now the Tannery Arts Center) is situated. The Awaswas-speaking Uypi tribe and their ancestors lived on these lands for thousands of years and were the first tanners along the San Lorenzo River. While tanning was a prominent feature of local Indigenous life, Indigenous people did not domesticate the animals – it was the Spanish colonizers who introduced cattle to California and made tanning on the industrial scale possible. Yulia Gilich and Kathleen Aston talk about the parallel processes of colonization that European settlers unleashed on the Indigenous people and the environment. The episode highlights the ongoing nature of colonial violence against Indigenous people and introduces histories of Indigenous resistance to and rebellion  ...