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    Krannert Art Museum exhibition of Pueblo pots shows connections to ancestral land, community

    A new exhibition of Pueblo pottery at Krannert Art Museum illustrates the expertise of women potters and how the creation of ceramics connects them to their ancestral land and their communities.
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    New building planned for ethnic and gender and women’s studies

    Venetria K. Patton, Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of LAS, said the new building will reflect the college- and university-wide commitment to diversity and leadership in ethnic studies and gender and women’s studies
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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. "It means amplifying the transnational Mayan culture locally and bringing it to the minds of the surrounding community."
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  • Jacki Thompson Rand named Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs
    As the university work to acknowledge the responsibility to the Native Nations for whom Illinois is an ancestral home and establish meaningful reciprocal relationships, we are pleased to announce that Jacki Thompson Rand becomes the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs
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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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  • 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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  • Two-Spirit Camp
    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
  • 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. colonized “the New World.” This course is an...
    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. This interactive, seminar-style course will guide students through an exploration of texts, images, and film to examine not...
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  • 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. Within this body of literature, decolonial love may describe intimate bonds between people; it may involve the embracing of two-spirit or indigiqueer identify, or the claiming of kinship...
    Course Description for AIS 503

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