Building an Indigenous Language Hub in the Midwest

When talking about language justice, Korinta Maldonado, an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focuses on the beauty of the language first. This is a...

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

  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

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

Democracy is Indigenous Project at Illinois Native American House (NAH) Undergraduate Ambassadors, Will Bartee (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Major: Integrative Biology), Justin Bean (...

2024 NCAIS Graduate Workshop in Research Methods —Indigenous Place-Based (Hi)Stories and Research

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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