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  • ncais workshop
    2024 NCAIS Graduate Workshop in Research Methods —Indigenous Place-Based (Hi)Stories and Research
    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.
  • Illinois researchers
    Illinois researchers, Native American tribes working together to curate, increase access to oral histories
    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
  • Angela Tapia Arce
    In Memoriam: Dr. Angela Tapia Arce
    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
    Research re-envisions social, ecological relations through Indigenous literary and visual texts
    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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • U. of I. anthropology and AIS professor Ripan Malhi
    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
  • Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo
    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.
  • Alma Mater
    New building planned for ethnic and gender and women’s studies
    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
  • Korinta Maldonado
    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
  • Jacki Thompson Rand
    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
  • awarded researchers
    Three scholars in LAS awarded fellowships for research in humanities
    Three researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been awarded 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships
  • Durango Mendoza
    Art and Everyday Life: Remembering Durango Mendoza
    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."
  • Student takes notes during AP U.S. History class
    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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