Wallace Cleaves is an associate professor of teaching and associate director of the University Writing Program at the University of California at Riverside. He has also taught courses in medieval, Renaissance, and Native American literature at Pomona College in Claremont, at Cal State Fullerton, and at UC Riverside. He is a member of the Gabrielino / Tongva Native American tribe, the indigenous peoples of the Los Angeles area.
“Unmarked Grave of Toypurina: Mission San Juan Bautista,” from When Rivers Were Trails, Indian Land Tenure Foundation through MSU, 2018, by Weshoyot Alvitre / Courtesy of the artist
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