Danielle Hiraldo, M.P.A., Ph.D. (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina)

TRIBAL OUTREACH SPECIALIST/SENIOR RESEARCHER

Phone: (520)626-6335

Email: hiraldo(at)arizona.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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

Policy Brief: Native Nation Rebuilding for Tribal Research and Data Governance

Hiraldo, Danielle, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Dominique M. David-Chavez, Mary Beth Jäger, and Miriam Jorgensen. 2020. "Native Nation Rebuilding for Tribal Research and Data Governance." NNI Policy Brief Series. Tucson: Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona.​

'If You Are Not at the Table, You Are on the Menu’: Lumbee Government Strategies under State Recognition

​Hiraldo, Danielle V. “‘If You Are Not at the Table, You Are on the Menu’: Lumbee Government Strategies under State Recognition.” Native American and Indigenous Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020, pp. 36–61. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/natiindistudj.7.1.0036.​

Asserting Self-Governing Authority Beyond the Federal Recognition Paradigm: North Carolina’s Adaptation of the Indian Child Welfare Act

​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.​

Projects

We Still Remain: A Conference Toward the Promotion of Southeast Indigenous Research, Scholarship, and Collaboration

A two-day virtual conference on March 25-26, 2021 that will gather Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and scholars from education, social sciences, STEM, and humanities to examine areas of tension in research affecting Southeast Indigenous communities...

Tribal Governance Strategies: A Workshop to Engage State-recognized Tribes

On September 17th-19th 2020, the Native Nations Institute (NNI) hosted a three-day series of workshops that focused on governance under state recognition co-led by Danielle Hiraldo and Hannah Goins...

Courses

"Indigenous Organizations" for January in Tucson (by UArizona's Indigenous Governance Program)

Examining Indigenous organizations and Indigenous organizational concepts through the lens of Native Nation building, this course seeks to discuss the role of community-based organizations (Indigenous-led and Indigenous-serving) as key stakeholders...