Katherine Ann Spilde is an American anthropologist. She is a professor and endowed chair of the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming at

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, specializing in government-owned casino gambling models and Tribal Government Gaming.

Early life and education

Spilde was raised in

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White Earth Indian Reservation The White Earth Indian Reservation ( oj, Gaa-waabaabiganikaag, "Where there is an abundance of white clay") is the home to the White Earth Band, located in northwestern Minnesota. It is the largest Indian reservation in the state by land area. T ...

although she is not a tribal member. Her parents were teachers. Spilde completed a BA in anthropology at

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in 1991. She earned an MA in anthropology at George Washington's

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in 1993. Her master's thesis was advised by Ruth Krulfeld, and titled ''"I'm gonna get mines": drugs, ethics and hope on the streets of Washington, D.C.'' In 1998, Spilde became the third student to complete a Ph.D. in the cultural anthropology program at

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. Her doctoral advisor was Triloki Pandey. Spidle's dissertation was titled ''Acts of sovereignty, acts of identity: Negotiating interdependence through tribal government gaming on the White Earth Indian Reservation''. She earned a MBA in entrepreneurship from

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Career

Spilde began as a policy analyst and writer for the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC). She was then appointed Director of Research for the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) in Washington, DC. She was a leading developer for the creation of the

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's National Indian Gaming Library and Resource Center. In 2003, Spilde was hired as Executive Director for the Center of California Native Nations, and in 2008, she was named the Endowed Chair of the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming at San Diego State University.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Spilde, Katherine American women academics Living people Year of birth missing (living people) San Diego State University faculty University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni Columbian College of Arts and Sciences alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni University of California, Riverside alumni American women anthropologists 20th-century American anthropologists 21st-century American anthropologists People from Mahnomen County, Minnesota Academics from Minnesota