My father, the actor Henry Fonda, starred in many cowboy and Indian films. When I was a young girl, I dreamed of being an Indian galloping bareback across the prairie and gliding silently through forests, leaving no trace. My film favorites were any Westerns that had Indians in them, and yet I knew nothing about the history of North America’s Indigenous peoples. That began to change in 1970, when Indigenous activists occupied Alcatraz Island. I visited with them, and soon I was learning more