NOT ABOUT YOU | Episode 6 Heid Erdrich

“I definitely knew there was going to be a life time of
switching this way and moving that way.”


On this episode, Heid Erdrich talks about being a person of color
in rooms when everyone assumes there are no people of color
present. She talks about how cultural appropriation, how her
native cultural traditions were illegal when she was a child and
what “passing” means to her.


Heid E. Erdrich’s writing has won
awards and honors from the Loft Literary Center, Bush Foundation,
Minnesota State Arts Board, The First Peoples Fund and other
organizations.  She teaches writing and is a frequent
speaker on Native American subjects. She lives in Minnesota with
her husband, kids, and a feisty Jack Russell terrier. 


Thanks for listening to Not About You. For more information about
cultural appropriation go to http://nativeappropriations.com/


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