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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In its annual report released last November, the Diversity Advisory Board announced that it will seek to recruit more Native American students, faculty and staff. The report noted that the board has ...

"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 ...

More than five decades ago, Morgan Chu was taught a version of American history that all but ignored the experiences of Asian Americans like him. Chu, an attorney who grew up in New York and moved to ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Brianna Dagostino, a member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation in South Jersey, started at Montclair State in 2019, she said she thought more could be done to recognize Native American ...