ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces 1) members of lineages from the San Fernando Band of Mission Indians who tell of overcoming stereotypes, challenges from the mission context including loss of identities, DNA challenges, and leadership forging a path by providing education about their heritage to families and community, actively resurrecting family history across surviving lineages, and actively engaging in oral histories; 2) a citizen of the Navajo Nation who tells of her time back to the reservation of her origins and family to record interviews for a family history. She shares some of what she learned about her indigenous background, how she learned it, and pointers about respectful interview protocols when interviewing her Navajo family; and 3) the first woman leader of the Arizona Yaquis who speaks about interviewing a trilingual population including planning, preparing with background research, arranging for recording interviews in the preferred language of the interviewee, publishing a book of interview summaries, mounting an exhibit of many of the photographs in the book, and then celebrating with a feast at a local community center.
