05/22/2023 - 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...
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05/01/2023 - 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...
01/27/2023 - 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...
11/22/2022 - 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...
11/16/2022 - 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...
03/21/2022 - Prior to European contact, the territory now known as California hosted one of the most populous and diverse Native American communities on the continent
02/04/2022 - 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.
12/02/2021 - 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
09/14/2021 - AIS professor fights different pandemic challenge: the Mayan language barrier. "Language work isn’t just about interpreting," Maldonado said
08/23/2021 - Dr. Rand will serve as the university’s Tribal Liaison to help the campus establish and maintain respectful relationships with Native American Nations
03/29/2021 - Led by Professors Jenny Davis and Bethany Anderson, this two-year grant of $196,000 will support the Doris Duke Native Oral History Revitalization Project
11/17/2020 - Memorial for Durango Mendoza, Muscogee (Creek) writer/artist (1945–2020). In a News-Gazette interview he said of his art, including writing, “certain things catch my eyes and mean something to me."
09/18/2020 - American Indian Studies postdoctoral fellow Lindsay Marshall talks with TIME Magazine about the long history of reactionary political attacks on U.S. history curriculum
09/15/2020 - Effective September 15, 2020, the university will implement a moratorium on research, teachingand circulation of human remains and cultural items that are potentially subject to NAGPRA
09/10/2020 - Brenda J. Child describes what the jingle dance tradition means to Ojibwe people today, and how it has evolved to include modern protest movements such as Standing Rock and calls for racial justice
