The Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) condemns the murders of African Americans Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, which are part of a long pattern of reprehensible violence.
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Native artists from North America will talk about their work at three events this month that are part of Krannert Art Museum’s new Native Artist Series.
American Indian Studies professor Shanondora Billiot examines the United Houma Nation's experiences with climate change and the impact it is having on tribal culture and members’ health and well-being. “People are not included in decisions that directly impact them. They feel a lack of agency,” Billiot said.
More Department News
- There are many resources for students and staff during this unusual time of crisis and change.
- Co-edited by AIS faculty member Shanondora Billiot, this special issue of Genealogy seeks to to reconsider how community engagement, and CBPR can be best operationalized within Indigenous communities to yield meaningful research.
- The D’Arcy McNickle Center invites graduate students within the Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies (NCAIS) to submit proposals for papers in any academic field relating to American Indian and Indigenous Studies.
Calendar
AIS 285Fall 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.
AIS 277Fall 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.
AIS 503Fall 2020 -- This graduate seminar will explore figurations of decolonial love in Indigenous writing.
