With today's new release "The Lone Ranger," Johnny Depp is adding "American Indian" to the pile of personas he's tried on -- and scholars of American Indian history are not pleased.
- Informative, comic, and plaintive, "Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins" is an anthology of reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have been portrayed in film.
- “How do you maintain your critical scholarly edge" Warrior said, "and make sure that what you say is not just accurate but a defensible way of telling what history is?”
- To celebrate the presidential inauguration, Frederick E. Hoxie discusses his new book, "This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made."
- The first collection of writings focused on an off-reservation Indian boarding school, "The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue" shares the fascinating story of Sherman Institute in Riverside, CA
- Joy Harjo, internationally acclaimed poet and musician, set to join the faculty of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in January, 2013.
- 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
- There are many resources for students and staff during this unusual time of crisis and change
- The seminar at the Newberry Library and examines Native American and Indigenous language endangerment and revitalization.
- Gilbert discusses his grandfather, Lloyd (Quache) Gilbert, who attended the Phoenix Indian School, to highlight the value of utilizing Native ways of understanding to interpret Hopi education history
- Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain between Indian and America, set to be published by U Kansas PressProfessor Gilbert's new book is named a Winner of the David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize
- Professor Tahmahkera, an enrolled citizen of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, is an interdisciplinary scholar of North American indigeneities, critical media, and sound