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As a culminating event to our reading of her book, As Long as the Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker will be joining KTC via Zoom on Tuesday, June 30th at 7:30 PM!
You can now register online for the 6/30 author conversation with Dina Gilio-Whitaker. Please register by 6/29. The registration fee for the author talk is $15-25, depending on what you can pay. Please use this PayPal link to finalize your registration.
Please feel free to join even if you haven’t read the book, or buy it from Beacon Press or Third Place Books. More info on topics & resources here.
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, and an independent consultant and educator in environmental justice policy planning. Dina’s research focuses on Indigenous nationalism, self-determination, environmental justice, and education. At CSUSM she teaches courses on environmentalism and American Indians, traditional ecological knowledge, religion and philosophy, Native women’s activism, American Indians and sports, and decolonization. She also works within the field of critical sports studies, examining the intersections of indigeneity and the sport of surfing. As a public intellectual, Dina brings her scholarship into focus as an award-winning journalist as well, contributing to numerous online outlets including Indian Country Today, the Los Angeles Times, High Country News and many more. Dina is co-author with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz of Beacon Press’s “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans (2016), and her most recent book, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock, was released in 2019.