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.
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Collaborative ResearchThe Newberry Consortium links universities across the U.S. and Canada engaged in training graduate students in Indigenous Studies
On Traditional Native LandsIllinois Land Acknowledgement
It’s well known that traumatic experiences can have lifelong impacts on health and well-being. But it’s possible that those effects can last longer than a single lifetime. A new study lead by American Indian Studies Professor Ripan Malhi asks whether the effects of trauma have been passed down genetically in Tlingit families in Hoonah, Alaska.
We are launching a workshop series called AIS.In.Progress, where faculty and graduate students can workshop drafts of articles, chapters, creative works, job applications, talks, frybread recipes, etc. The first professionalization workshop will focus on the academic job market and will be co-facilitated by Professor Jenny Davis (Chickasaw) and AIS Interim Director Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche).
More Department News
- 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.
- Professor Jenny L. Davis is set to lead the 2019 NCAIS Summer Institute seminar, Revitalizing Indigenous Languages.
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AIS 285There 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 277In Encounters in Native America, students will explore the complex history of cross-cultural encounters between Native peoples and other groups in North America.
AIS 459Representations of American Indians have played a significant role in the formation of popular culture and science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres.
