Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Who Gets to be Indian? - YouTube Content in this list is directly related to my book "Who Gets to be Indian: Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations about Native Ameri...

We need to have serious conversations about pretendianism, even when it shatters our illusions.

thanks Neil. I don’t engage here much, but happy to connect privately.

In my new book I wrote about disenrollment as a problem of the concentration of power in Indian country. I write specifically about Mark Macarro and others, exposing a web of influence and power that entangles certain tribes and tribal leaders, Hollywood, media, and the philanthropy world.

Who Gets to Be Indian? by Dina Gilio-Whitaker: 9780807044964 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An investigation into how Native American identity became a commodity, from cultural appropriation to ethnic fraud to disenrollment Settler capitalism has been so effective that the very identities o...

Popping back up on social media to start promoting my forthcoming book.

Trump/trumpism was the initial cause of the implosion of my marriage. On the other hand people always show you who they are…..and when they do, believe them.

Not surprising coming from a privileged white South African. He probably liked it better before the fall of apartheid.

I say this often and said this in class yesterday.
They might take an American Indian studies class thinking easy A, but then find out it’s a lot more challenging than they thought.

Wonder how trump’s SIL and Jewish convert daughter feel about it?

Idk Mike. Didn’t you just help normalize the fascist broligarchy? Democracy means nothing to them, only power. It certainly didn’t matter 4 years ago. These are not normal times and we cannot treat them as such. You must stand up to them ✊🏽

Barron always looks vacant, or miserable. He also sends off a vibe of being a ticking time bomb.

Those EO’s trump rescinded seem to be mostly related to DEI and climate/environ. Let’s be clear: tribal issues are not DEI issues, they are sovereignty issues. This represents trump 2.0’s first strike against tribal sovereignty.

The crumbling of the empire has a disorienting affect, fueled by social media disinformation. People can no longer distinguish reality from fantasy, and conspiracy theories pass for critical thinking. We are truly in Orwellian times.

For the next 4 years we cannot stop exposing the man behind the curtain.

When will the dem leadership stop playing nice with maga? Trump doesn’t deserve that kind of courtesy

I feel like I’m living in a reality tv show where nothing is as it seems

I was there for Obama inauguration 1.0. Me and a million other people braved the cold and no one died that i know of, and were super proud to be there. But i guess it’s not surprising that this one would pander to a bunch of pansy-ass billionaires.

Going surfing with a group of badass older women to celebrate a birthday of one of them.

I like Bluesky, but we really need more response options than just the heart button.

Hell to the no. Surfing and hanging out with friends is a much better use of my time than giving one second of my time to the sociopath-in-chief.

Buyers remorse seems to be spreading. Bring. It. On.

The right might think they can derail soc sci and humanities by rebranding as wokeism but the train has long left the station and there are too many of us doing the work of history correctives and sociopolitical reframing. Too many of us also care about climate change to stop us.

We all know that “deporting immigrants” only applies to certain immigrants, and it’s not the highly educated ones who come for the high end STEM jobs.

There’s nothing more virtue signaling than plastering the American flag all over your car, your clothes, your head. It says I am more American, more patriotic, more deserving of the benefits of Americanness than you.

Please.

Top Trump picks have ties to Project 2025 Trump contended he knew nothing about Project 2025 — but several of his Cabinet picks certainly do.

Agent Orange swore up and down before the election that he knew nothing about Project 2025, still no surprise that he intends to pack his cabinet with a bunch of P25 architects. Those who voted for him not really knowing what they were voting for are in for some rude awakenings.

I think a lot of people are in for a rude awakening when they realize they don’t know what they were voting for. The midterm elections could easily be a game changer just like in trump 1.0. We are always playing the long game.

Critiquing the US as a place with white supremacy at its foundation is not the same as hating white people. White people need to get over their fragility about this and conflating criticism with hate.

Hell to the no

Such a coincidence

Twitter was always too much of a cesspool for me. BTW, I picked up a galley of your new book from Beacon, who is also my publisher. Looking forward to reading it.