Dina Gilio-Whitaker Quotes

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Dina Gilio-Whitaker is an American academic, journalist and author, who studies Native Americans in the United States, decolonization and environmental justice. She is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes.

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Capitalism as a driving force for climate change must, at the very least, be interrogated, and already-existing Indigenous rights frameworks and language can help us do this.

New frameworks of justice can be realized as we speak into existence a habitable future for life on this planet.

How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and environmental justice: Native nations and activists must have a seat at the tab (2019)

The more we can distinguish our political existence from a race-based one, the better.

How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and environmental justice: Native nations and activists must have a seat at the tab (2019)

Climate change’s growing urgency demands nothing less than our seat at the table — for the sake of our children and the seven generations to come.

How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and environmental justice: Native nations and activists must have a seat at the tab (2019)

Most people don’t realize that Native Americans are the only people who didn’t have religious freedom in this country. Our religions were outright banned beginning around 1883.

Interview (2020)

Environmental racism is not broad or deep enough to understand the history of genocide or land theft in this country, which of course is the original environmental injustice for Native people.

Interview (2021)

How do you restore Indigenous authority to their ancestral places? By considering all kinds of possibilities and alternative land arrangements, including shared governance.

Interview (2019)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dina Gilio-Whitaker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.