Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Author · 3 books
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is the policy director and a senior research associate at the Center for World Indigenous Studies and teaches American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos. She is the coauthor, with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, of “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans. She lives in San Clemente, California.
Books

Who Gets to Be Indian?
Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations About Native American Identity
2025

“All the Real Indians Died Off”
And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
2016

As Long as Grass Grows
The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
2019