Danielle Hiraldo, M.P.A., PhD
Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Pronouns: She/Her
Positions(s):
Outreach Specialist/Senior Researcher, Native
Nations Institute, University of Arizona
Email me: hiraldo@arizona.edu
Danielle received her Ph.D. in the American Indian Studies program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. She holds a M.P.A. and a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Pre-Law from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Danielle’s research interests focus on tribal-state relationships (specifically state-recognized tribes in the Southeast), federal Indian law/ policy, Native Nation governance structures and practices.
Publications
Hiraldo, Danielle. 2018. Asserting Self-Governing Authority Beyond the Federal Recognition Paradigm: North Carolina’s Adaptation of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Chapter for Indigenous Justice: Crime and Social Justice. Eds. Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Hiraldo, Danielle. 2020. “If you are not at the table, you are on the menu”: Lumbee Self-Government Strategies under State Recognition. Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
On the unceded traditional homelands of the Tohono O’odham Nation and the lands of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe
Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance 