Meet Tsim Schneider

Not featured in the film, but served as an Archaeological Professional informant on this project.

Tsim Schneider, Ph.D., is a professor of anthropology at the University California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Tsim’s teaching and research focuses on the 13,000+-year record of Indigenous peoples of California, including their more recent encounters with Euro-American colonizers. His book, The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California (2021), examines Coast Miwok responses to missions, rancherias, and mercantile projects established on the coast of California between the late 1700s and late 1800s. The book also covers the creative strategies of Coast Miwok peoples as they continually made futures for their families and culture in times of colonization. Check out Tsim’s profile (see link bellow) for more books surrounding the persistence of Indigenous foodways through colonization of the America’s. In his spare time, Dr. Schneider also makes shell beads and ornaments from clam and abalone. In learning how to design and create traditional regalia, he hopes to connect with his culture, community, and the younger generations in his family through teaching and learning with them.

Link to Dr. Schneiders UCSC profile: https://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=tdschnei