Who Gets to Be Native in America - Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
Schedule
Mon Mar 23 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:15 pm
UTC-04:00Location
UNE Center for Global Humanities | Portland, ME
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Free and open to the public. There will be a reception with food and drinks at 5 P.M.Lecture Description
What happens when rules around Native identity — many of which were created by a US government intent on wiping out Native people altogether — inhibit Native people from creating successful, sustainable communities? In this lecture, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz offers a brief history of Native tribal enrollment and identity, and how that history is still shaping Native America today.
Speaker Biography
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. She serves as an associate professor of public policy and directs the Native Policy Lab at the University of Iowa. Her lecture at UNE will be based on her first book, The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America.
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
United States
https://www.une.edu/events/2026/who-gets-be-native-america
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UNE Center for Global Humanities, 25 College St, Portland, ME 04103-2617, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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