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My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools – why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enough

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-...

New NAGPRA Procedures Established

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...

Native American House Undergraduate Ambassadors Awarded Democracy is Indigenous Grant

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 (...

“Stories Are Law”: The Legal Reasonings of Indigenous Literatures

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Nicholas Vincent by Edward Chatfield, 1825

Spring 24: This course examines what Indigenous (Native American/American Indian) literatures, from creation stories to legal memorials to novels, reveal about Indigenous legal fra

Indigenous Technologies

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Spring 24: The term technology has a wide-ranging definition that covers a lot of ground.

Oddkin: Rethinking Relations in Indigenous Literary and Visual Texts

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Spring 24: Oddkin: Rethinking Relations in Indigenous Literary and Visual Texts: In “How Do We Behave as Good Relatives?” Daniel Heath Justice writes about “making kin as oddkin […

Queer Indigenous Studies

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Spring 2022: Queer Indigenous Studies: This seminar will delve into the burgeoning field of queer Indigenous studies.

Intro to American Indian Studies

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Fall 23: Interdisciplinary introduction surveys the stories, histories, and lands of tribal peoples who became known as "American Indians"

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.

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