#136. The Complicated History of Native American Identity

For seven years Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz was a policy advisor in the Obama Administration, focusing on homelessness and Native policy. In addition to an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Denmark. She currently teaches public policy at the University of Iowa, and is also the Director of the Native Policy Lab. An enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, she was awarded the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2023 for her debut nonfiction book, The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America, which is the subject of today’s interview.Recorded 12/4/24.