James Ramos: Native history is American history

James Ramos: Native history is American history

Each fall, when the oak trees turn color in the foothills above Highland, I think about my grandparents, my parents James and Rowena Ramos, and the generations who lived and prayed on this land long before it was called California. Those same hills were my classroom growing up on the San Manuel Indian Reservation, where elders would gather us and remind us that the land remembers. Those lessons stayed with me — not as history, but as a way of li…