
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of the new book "Who Gets to Be Indian?" explores how California became ground zero for Native American identity fraud — from Hollywood's early film lots to today's casino capitalism and tribal disenrollment crisis. The state's confluence of entertainment industry, counterculture movements, federal relocation programs, and gaming wealth created perfect conditions for "Indianness" to become commodified, challenging authentic tribal sovereignty and belonging across the nation.
By Jeff Schechtman4.9
4949 ratings
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of the new book "Who Gets to Be Indian?" explores how California became ground zero for Native American identity fraud — from Hollywood's early film lots to today's casino capitalism and tribal disenrollment crisis. The state's confluence of entertainment industry, counterculture movements, federal relocation programs, and gaming wealth created perfect conditions for "Indianness" to become commodified, challenging authentic tribal sovereignty and belonging across the nation.

38,495 Listeners

6,773 Listeners

26,222 Listeners

9,186 Listeners

3,990 Listeners

721 Listeners

941 Listeners

1,058 Listeners

112,934 Listeners

2,336 Listeners

190 Listeners

433 Listeners

5,490 Listeners

16,096 Listeners

1,595 Listeners