Native American & Indigenous Languages (NAIL) Lab
Join us for the NAIL Lab's inaugural talk and workshop of the "Visiting with and alongside Indigenous Language Workers: Conversations on Ethics and Praxis in Language Work" series.
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2026 NCAIS Summer Institute
"These Sustain Us:" Approaches to Land Management, Rematriation, and Indigenous Ecological MethodsApplications due February 13Dr. Jacki Rand (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) and Dr....
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L is for Land Acknowledgment, part one
A startling bit of prose was introduced before public events at the University of Illinois after July 26, 2018, when the Chancellor’s office issued an official “Land Acknowledgment Statement.”
History of American Indian Education
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Card File of School Age Children 1932-1935, Record Group 75
Spring 26: The History of American Indian Education explores federal policy as it relates to American
Native American History
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Spring 26: A survey of the Native American experience in North America from the time of first contact to the present.
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New Faculty 2025-26
Dr. Natasha Myhal joins a cohort of scholars whose contributions deepen our research strengths, enrich student mentorship, and bring innovative leadership to the College’s long-standing areas of excellence
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2026 NCAIS Grad Student Conference, abstracts due: Oct 10
The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies invites graduate students within the Newberry Consortium for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) to submit proposals for individual papers in any academic field relating to American Indian and Indigenous Studies
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Building an Indigenous Language Hub in the Midwest
When talking about language justice, Korinta Maldonado, an assistant clinical professor in the American Indian Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology, focuses on the beauty of the language first
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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-...