2025-06-02
- When talking about language justice, Korinta Maldonado, an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focuses on the beauty of the language first. This is a practice she learned working alongside community members in central Illinois who are speakers of...
2024-10-28 - I am a direct descendant of family members that were forced as children to attend either a U.S. government-operated or church-run Indian boarding school. They include my mother, all four of my grandparents and the majority of my great-grandparents. On Oct. 25, 2024, Joe Biden, the first U.S. president to formally apologize for the policy...
2024-10-09 - Democracy is Indigenous Project at Illinois Native American House (NAH) Undergraduate Ambassadors, Will Bartee (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Major: Integrative Biology), Justin Bean (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Major: Mechanical Engineering), and Yanaba Schroeder...
2023-10-23 - In this interdisciplinary workshop, Native American and Indigenous Studies methodologies are centered to reveal Indigenous presence amidst the many and complex ways contemporary places are rendered settler spaces on occupied Indigenous landscapes.
Once the project is finished, tribes from around the country will be able to look at the materials online and have access to pieces of their histories
It is with great sadness that I write to let you know about the passing of our previous Chancellor’s postdoc fellow, Angela Tapia Arce at her home in New York. As those of you who got to work with her last year know well, Angela was an amazingly generous person, scholar, artist, and activist
Deena Rymhs is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Faculty Fellow. Rymhs’ project “Putting Back Together: Re-Worldings in annie ross’s Pots and Other Living Beings” focuses on a recently published book of poet and weaver annie ross (Maya).
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.
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.
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.
2022-06-12 - The university's NAGPRA office recently established new procedures to comply with the NAGPRA policy in the Campus Administrative Manual. The procedures were developed by the Chancellor's Office's Advisory Committee. Contact NAGPRA Program Officer Krystiana Krupa (klkrupa@illinois.edu) with any...
Prior to European contact, the territory now known as California hosted one of the most populous and diverse Native American communities on the continent
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.
LAS Dean Venetria K. Patton said the new building will reflect the university-wide commitment to diversity and leadership in ethnic studies and gender and women’s studies
AIS professor fights different pandemic challenge: the Mayan language barrier. "Language work isn’t just about interpreting," Maldonado said