What does it mean to be Native American? And who gets to be Native American? Scholar Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz (The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America) dives into legal concepts, historical data, and personal anecdotes to explore the evolution of Native identity and community.
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Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She spent seven years working in the Obama Administration on issues of homelessness and Native policy. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The Indian Card is her first book.
Dr. Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz is a Mexicana/Chicana fronteriza queer educator, award-winning translator, writer, activist, and performer from Sonora, Mexico and southern California. She is a professor at Trinity University who teaches Mexican, Chicana/o/e/x, and Latina/o/e/x literatures, cultures, gender, sexuality, theater, and performance studies. She authored Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture and has edited five books related to her fields of study. Her story “First Visit,” about being undocumented as an undergraduate student, is in the anthology: Somewhere We are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings, co-edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca. Along with her dear friend and colega Dr. L Heidenreich, she co-authored the book Writing that Matters: A Hanbook for Chicanx/Latinx Studies.
