Adrienne Keene
[1][2] A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she is the founder of Native Appropriations, a blog on contemporary Indigenous issues analyzing the way that Indigenous peoples are represented in popular culture, covering issues of cultural appropriation in fashion and music and stereotyping in film and other media.[6] The site and Keene's writing there, as well as across other social media sites and speaking engagements, have drawn notice for commentary on topics including Native American mascots,[7][8][9] Dakota Access Pipeline protests,[10][11] college access for Native students,[12] cultural appropriation in children's literature,[13] tourism in Indigenous communities,[14][15] fashion[16][17][18] and racist costumes.[3] Starting in 2019, along with Matika Wilbur (Swinomish/Tulalip), Keene co-hosts a podcast called "All My Relations," which investigates and delves into contemporary Native identity.[22] In 2014, Keene became a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Brown University's Department of Anthropology and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.[26] She continues this project with research on the use of media and emerging technology platforms by Native people to combat these images.