Author Conversation: Who Gets to Be Indian?

Event Date & Time
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Event Location
412 Pillsbury Hall

310 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Cover of the book "Who Gets to Be Indian?" by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Introduction by Stuart McLean, Chair of Anthropology and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
 
Panelists: Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes direct descendant), Lecturer in American Indian Studies, California State University San Marcos, and author of Who Gets to be Indian? Ethnic Fraud and Other Difficult Conversations about Native American Identity in conversation with Audra Simpson (Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Nation), Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.
 
Cost: $50
 
This is a dinner event. Vegetarian and gluten-free meal options are available.
 
 

Disability Accommodations

American Sign Language interpretation will be provided by LingoForce.

Some accommodation requests may take us time to arrange, so please make requests for this event by Wednesday, March 4, 2026. If you are registering after this date, please still reach out to us so we can explore available options. Contact: [email protected].

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization

This is an optional part of a two-day symposium, but you do not need to attend the symposium in order to join us for this event.

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