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  • Jenny L. Davis

    Writing with “Arterial Ink”: Inhabiting the space between boundaries in poetry, academia

    Davis’s love of language is evident in her latest book, the poetry collection Trickster Academy. The works call upon her observations and experiences within the academy, deftly moving between familiar topics and spaces (e.g., land acknowledgements, the classroom and its dynamics) in a disarming voice that is at times darkly humorous.
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  • Center for Indigenous Science

    New IGB center uses Indigenous Science frameworks for equitable and inclusive research

    The Center for Indigenous Science will cover multiple disciplines using Indigenous Science to address areas of concern for Indigenous peoples, including environment, health and history. The center will be headed by Jenny L. Davis, co-Chair of the Center and Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, and Ripan S. Malhi, co-Chair of the Center and Professor of Anthropology.
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  • One of the best examples of the tribes’ hide-painting tradition is an 18th-century ceremonial robe featuring an iconic image of a thunderbird, now in the collection of the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris.

    Project to reconnect Native American tribes with historic hide painting, artistic tradition

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Robert Morrissey is working with an interdisciplinary group of scholars, tribal cultural experts and community members on a project that will reconnect the tribes with their tradition of hide painting and with the ceremonial robes in the Quai Branly Museum.
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  • Study ties present-day Native American tribe to ancestors in San Francisco Bay Area
    Prior to European contact, the territory now known as California hosted one of the most populous and diverse Native American communities on the continent
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  • Korinta Maldonado receives 2021 Immigrant Leadership Award for her work with the Q’onjobal Maya community
    AIS professor fights different pandemic challenge: the Mayan language barrier. "Language work isn’t just about interpreting," Maldonado said
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  • Jacki Thompson Rand named Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs
    Dr. Rand will serve as the university’s Tribal Liaison to help the campus establish and maintain respectful relationships with Native American Nations
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  • Indigenous Film and New Media
    AIS 275

    Indigenous Film and New Media

    Spring 2023 -- When you think of Native Americans, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Did you think of something Modern or historical? Do you imagine Natives in space? Did you imagine Natives time travelling? If you didn't imagine any of those things, it is understandable. But did you know...
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  • Native Women Writers of the Midwest
    AIS 285

    Indigenous Thinkers - Native Women Writers of the Midwest

    Spring 2023 -- (AIS 285, Section C) Indigenous women have always been thinkers and intellectuals in the Midwest and beyond. In this course, we will read writing by six Native women from the year 1800 to 2000. We will explore how these women wrote and thought about politics,...
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  • Queer Indigenous Studies
    AIS 490

    Queer Indigenous Studies

    Spring 2022 -- Queer Indigenous Studies: This seminar will delve into the burgeoning field of queer Indigenous studies. Topics to be explored include the origins of queer Indigenous studies in 1980s Indigenous and women of color feminisms, the development and complexities of the term "Two-Spirit,"...
    Course Description for AIS 490

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