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, including all on-site or loaned collections, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Collaborative ResearchUniversity of Illinois is a member of the Newberry Consortium of American Indian and Indigenous Studies
On Traditional Native LandsIllinois Land Acknowledgement
Ojibwe women created a healing tradition in response to the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which devastated native peoples across the US, Alaska, and Canada. A century later, the tradition is with us as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
More Department News
- American Indian Studies postdoctoral fellow Lindsay Marshall talks with TIME Magazine about the long history of reactionary political attacks on U.S. history curriculum.
- 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.
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.
