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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Session B)

Jul 27 – Sep 4, 2020
Summer Intensive 2020
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This course links issues of colonialism, race, environmental justice, and Indigenous knowledge in ways that bring them “home” and make it personal. It will be taught from an unapologetically American Indian perspective, based on American Indian studies methods, and is an adapted version of a university course the instructor teaches annually.

The central question this course will engage is: What is your relationship to place and to Indigenous peoples? Our work is to unsettle the master narratives that maintain American settler colonialism and work toward developing an ethic of accountability and responsibility. Because Miami is such an ethnically diverse place, it is an ideal location to generate these complex and sometimes fraught discussions.

Please download the full syllabus in the Resources section of this page.

Schedule
  • What is Your Relationship to Place: Examining Colonial Privilege and Accountability

    Mon, Aug 10, 2020
    2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
  • Tue, Aug 11, 2020
    2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
  • Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
  • Thu, Aug 13, 2020
    2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
About Dina Gilio-Whitaker

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 and High Country News. 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.

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Semester
Jul 27 – Sep 4, 2020
Summer Intensive 2020
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