¹ This review is an expanded version of remarks made at an “Author Meets Critics” event sponsored by the Social Science Matrix, University of California, Berkeley, 1/19/24 (I was a press reviewer for The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall.)

² The unnaming proposal and the many comments (archived by date) can be consulted at the website of the UC Berkeley Building Name Review Committee: https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/task-forces/administrative-committees/building-name-review-committee. Hendel’s opinion: https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2020/07/29/on-un-naming-barrows-hall/.

³ Haraway, Donna, 2016. Staying with the Trouble (Durham, Duke University Press).Google Scholar

⁴ Julian Lang, 1991. “Introduction,” in Lucy Thompson, ed., To the American Indian (Berkeley, Heyday Press).

⁵ The most recent instantiation of the Kroeber tradition is the (now-digitized) “California Language Archive,” directed by Andrew Garrett. It extends work from the 1950s by Mary Haas and many others at Berkeley. To browse its enormous range is revelatory [https://cla.berkeley.edu]. A related initiative, the “Breath of Life” language restoration workshop, founded by linguist Leanne Hinton, introduces Native community members to archival materials as sources for revitalization.