Every fall is a season of resistance for Indigenous peoples.

Alice was an outspoken advocate who championed tribal rights. She was incredibly disturbed by the living conditions that the policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal created for her people. Jemison relentlessly and vocally criticized the BIA and was determined to protect the Seneca tribe’s civil and treaty rights.

Buffalo Calf Road, a young Cheyenne warrior woman with a gun in one hand, and her baby tied securely to her back, in her early twenties was fighting against the westward expansion of pioneers, miners, and an army seeking to devour and colonize the land on the great plains and force the Lakota Sioux, the Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho onto reservations.

It was Thocmetony Sarah Winnemucca's duty to make sure her people weren't erased and forgotten. She was a freedom fighter and defender of human rights, in plight to make the world a better place, as ingrained in her by her father Chief Winnemucca.