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  • Faculty Position: Open Search for a Tenured or Tenure-Track Professors in American Indian Studies

    These positions are part of a multi-year hiring commitment in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Application deadline, February 5.
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    Effective September 15, 2020, as part of our commitment to NAGPRA and to the concerns of Tribal Nations, the university will implement a moratorium on research, teaching, display, imaging, and circulation of human remains and cultural items that are potentially subject to NAGPRA
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  • Debate Over US History Class Began Long Before 1619 Project
    American Indian Studies postdoctoral fellow Lindsay Marshall talks with TIME Magazine about the long history of reactionary political attacks on U.S. history curriculum.
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  • NAISA Supports Protests Seeking Justice
    NAISA stands in solidarity with the African American community and with protesters of all races who express their righteous anger and demand of justice across the United States
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  • Medicine Bear Winter
    AIS 285

    Indigenous Thinkers

    Fall 2020 -- There are two popular narratives about Native Americans. The first is that their ancestors reached the Americas via the Bering Strait some 13,000 years ago. The second is that the majority died from infectious diseases when Columbus et al.

    Course Description for AIS 285
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    AIS 277

    Encounters in Native America

    Fall 2020 -- In Encounters in Native America, students will explore the complex history of cross-cultural encounters between Native peoples and other groups in North America.

    Course Description for AIS 277
  • Islands of Decolonial Love
    AIS 503

    Decolonial Love and Indigenous Literature

    Fall 2020 -- This graduate seminar will explore figurations of decolonial love in Indigenous writing.

    Course Description for AIS 503

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