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When she was growing up, Dina Gilio-Whitaker was constantly asked, “How much Indian blood do you have?” She could never figure out how to respond, which is not to say she didn’t know who she was.
“I knew that I was Native, I knew that I was Colville, I knew my family up there on the reservation,” she said recently. “But what I grew up with was a process of not being seen and not being recognized as being Native, because I was completely out of context.
“People think that they’re being friendly or whatever when they ask you that question. But what they’re really trying to understand is if you’re a real Indian or not.”
See her conversation with NPR’s Code Switch here. (Sorry, we’re a day late for Columbus Day!)
– Petra
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When she was growing up, Dina Gilio-Whitaker was constantly asked, “How much Indian blood do you have?” She could never figure out how to respond, which is not to say she didn’t know who she was.
“I knew that I was Native, I knew that I was Colville, I knew my family up there on the reservation,” she said recently. “But what I grew up with was a process of not being seen and not being recognized as being Native, because I was completely out of context.
“People think that they’re being friendly or whatever when they ask you that question. But what they’re really trying to understand is if you’re a real Indian or not.”
See her conversation with NPR’s Code Switch here. (Sorry, we’re a day late for Columbus Day!)
– Petra
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