The Native American and Indigenous studies minor at the University of Wyoming includes an interdisciplinary look at the rich cultures, histories and contemporary experiences of Native North American ...

Students continue to express concern over the future of Penn's Native American and Indigenous Studies minor a year after the program's coordinator and only tenured professor retired. In 2023, The ...

Princeton’s faculty approved the introduction of a new minor in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) at the faculty meeting on April 7 along with three other minors in American Studies, ...

We'd bet most people have no idea that the name Texas is derived from the Native American word "teyshas," a greeting meaning "friend." Or that the names of American Indian tribes that once populated ...

Duke will offer a series of Cherokee language courses this fall, marking the first time an Indigenous language will be taught at the University. Announced July 23, the course series begins in fall ...

Two years ago, Courtney Lewis launched the university’s first-ever Native American studies research program: Research for Indigenous Studies and Engagement in the United States (or RISE-US). An ...

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...

"Explores why many Native youth in the Indian Student Placement Program adopted a new notion of identity. From 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left the reservations to live with ...

For high school senior Robert McConnell, an acceptance to UC Santa Cruz would all but guarantee his attendance. That’s because, as a member of a federally recognized tribe, McConnell would not have to ...