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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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø "has benefited directly from Indian removal policies that violated human rights," the City Council voted unanimously, and joyfully, late Tuesday night to make Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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
CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø students Bridger Ruyle and Zhashki (Sasha) Strong have been selected as 2016 Udall Scholars, becoming the ninth and tenth CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø students to be honored with the scholarship since its inception in 1996.Ruyle and Strong were among
CNAIS Faculty & VC of Diversity, Bob Boswell at Native GraduationWhat's the history of CNAIS? CU had long boasted some premier faculty in the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies. There had been a long-running faculty research