03/05/2020 - Native artists from North America will talk about their work at three events this month that are part of Krannert Art Museum’s new Native Artist Series
News
10/23/2019 - American Indian Studies professor Shanondora Billiot examines the United Houma Nation's experiences with climate change and the impact it is having on tribal members
10/09/2019 - We are launching a series called AIS.In.Progress, where faculty and graduate students can workshop drafts of articles, chapters, creative works, job applications, talks, frybread recipes, etc.
07/16/2019 - The seminar at the Newberry Library and examines Native American and Indigenous language endangerment and revitalization.
06/19/2019 - Librarian of Congress announced the appointment of Joy Harjo as the nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2019-2020
11/19/2018 - In a new book, "Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain Between Indian and American," Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert tells the story of Hopi runners who made history in the early 1900s
10/02/2018 - The Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, descendants of the native people who once inhabited Illinois, also supports the idea
08/14/2018 - Professor Tahmahkera, an enrolled citizen of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, is an interdisciplinary scholar of North American indigeneities, critical media, and sound
05/17/2018 - Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, a professor of history, has been appointed by the College of LAS to direct the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois. His appointment set to begin in August.
04/25/2018 - Professor Davis's new book is named a Winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award
Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain between Indian and America, set to be published by U Kansas Press04/20/2018 - Professor Gilbert's new book is named a Winner of the David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize
04/10/2018 - Join us on Sunday, April 15 to enjoy and learn about the importance of the Native Grass Dance, as well as the Grass Dance regalia on loan and on exhibit in the Spurlock Museum
01/23/2017 - Former Chancellor Post Doctoral Fellows in American Indian Studies return to campus to share their research, academic journeys
12/08/2016 - Native Americans have claimed their rights and their place in the U.S. through more than two centuries of activism, according to Frederick E. Hoxie
08/02/2016 - Professor Adrian Burgos Jr. has been named interim director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Burgos' appointment is effective Aug. 16, 2016.
