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Zhashki Strong (left) poses with political science chair David Brown and Geneiveve Schneider at the scholarship celebration in October. Strong and Schneider are students who have received the Van Ek Political Science Scholarship.In late October,
Stephen Graham Jones at CU. Photo credit: Anthony CameraUniversity of New Mexico Press will publish The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion in December. Jones, who is also CNAIS Core Faculty and an English professor at CU was
Julia LaManna, Johanna Kron, Carla Fredericks, and Derik Goatson at CU LawAlthough Colorado adopted a mail-in ballot voting process partly to make voting easier for state residents, it unfortunately had a negative impact on members of the Ute
PICTURED (L-R): Dean Anaya; President of General Assembly Peter Thomson of Fiji; Ambassador Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee of Ghana; Ambassador Kai Sauer of Finland. Photo credit: CU LawCU Law School Dean James Anaya was recently in the news for his meeting
Members of ELOKA (Exchange for Local Observations & Knowledge of the Arctic) recently helped to launch a website to preserve maps and other indigenous knowledge from the Bering Sea Elders group in Alaska. The group recently published a book The
CNAIS Core Faculty and CU Religious Studies Professor Greg Johnson was interviewed for a recent ThinkPress article on the intersections between environmental protests and indigenous spiritual beliefs: Religion has long been a part of Native
CNAIS Core faculty and CU Law faculty, Kristen Carpenter published the following article: Indian Status Is Not Racial: Understanding ICWA as a Matter of Law and Practice in CATO-Unbound in August, 2016ICWA was passed by Congress in 1978 to
Recognizing that º£½ÇÉçÇø "has benefited directly from Indian removal policies that violated human rights," the City Council voted unanimously, and joyfully, late Tuesday night to make º£½ÇÉçÇø the country's 14th community to declare an annual Indigenous Peoples' Day. A complete schedule of events is available here.
CNAIS Executive Board member, Melanie Yazzie was interviewed this spring related to a piece she is showing at the Denver Art Museum through July in an exhibition called "Strong Statements" . Her piece See the full interview below: http://
Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of James (Jim) Anaya, a Regents’ Professor and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, as dean of the law school. Anaya will begin his duties on