Dina Gilio-Whitaker

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Born
California, United States
Academic background
EducationUniversity of New Mexico
Academic work
DisciplineAmerican Indian Studies
InstitutionsCalifornia State University San Marcos
Notable works

Dina Gilio-Whitaker is an American academic, journalist and author, who studies

Colville Confederated Tribes. In 2019, she published As Long as Grass Grows
.

Background

Dina Gilio-Whitaker is a

surfer.[1]

As a mature student, Gilio-Whitaker studied at the University of New Mexico, initially intending to go into a legal career. Her master's thesis, Panhe at the Crossroads: Toward an Indigenized Environmental Justice Discourse, was on the topic of indigenous American protests against a toll road being built on sacred land that was also a significant surfing location.[2][1]

Career

In 2016, Gilio-Whitaker co-authored "All the Real Indians Died Off" and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.[1][3] In 2017, she wrote a chapter of The Critical Surfer Reader (2017) titled "Appropriating Surfing and the Politics of Indigenous Authenticity".[4]

Since 2017, Gilio-Whitaker has lectured in American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, commuting from San Clemente, California. She was offered the position a year earlier, but declined due to book tour responsibilities.[2][4] She supports a scholarly framework known as "indigenized environmental justice", in which environmentalism would take into account "the history of colonization as a historical process of dispossession of native peoples and their lands in order to understand the way native people are still fighting these battles".[4]

In 2019, Gilio-Whitaker published As Long as Grass Grows. The book outlines the effect of American settlers on indigenous Americans since 1492, the modern environmentalism movement and indigenous approaches to environmental stewardship.[5][6][7]

Gilio-Whitaker is also a senior research associate and policy director at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. She runs the company DGW Consulting.[4][1] She has also volunteered for the Institute for Women Surfers, Native Like Water and the San Onofre Parks Foundation.[8] She maintains a blog, Ruminative.[1]

Selected works

Books

  • Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne; Gilio-Whitaker, Dina (2016). "All the Real Indians Died Off" and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans. Beacon Press.
  • Gilio-Whitaker, Dina (2019). As Long as Grass Grows. Beacon Press.

Journal articles

News articles

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Dina Gilio-Whitaker". Institute for Women Surfers. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Gilio-Whitaker, Dina (August 31, 2017). "Finding My Place in the World". Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  3. ^ Donnella, Leah (October 10, 2016). "On Columbus Day, A Look At The Myth That 'All The Real Indians Died Off'". Code Switch. NPR. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d Horn, Steve (May 2, 2019). "CSUSM professor probes environmental impacts on Native Americans in new book". The Coast News. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  5. ^ Krol, Debra Utacia (May 7, 2019). "No Savior on the Horizon: Native Peoples' Fight for Environmental and Cultural Protection". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  6. ^ Tempus, Alexandra (April–May 2019). "When Grass Stops Growing". The Progressive. Vol. 83, no. 2.
  7. Landscape Architecture Magazine
    . Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  8. ^ Black, Lisa (May 23, 2019). "Decolonizing Surfer: Dina Gilio-Whitaker". OC Weekly. Retrieved August 24, 2021.

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