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CU A&S students thank Scholarship Donors

Nov. 30, 2016

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, Arts and Sciences hosted a special dinner to celebrate scholarship winners and thank the...

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Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding - Print Exhibition

Nov. 17, 2016

Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding BMoCA curator Mardee Goff introduces Melanie Yazzie at show reception. Don't miss Boulder's Museum of Contemporary Art is featuring this two week exhibtion of contemporary Native American & Indigenous prints organized by Navajo artist and CNAIS Core faculty, Melanie Yazzie . Yazzie invited eleven other...

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Why Ethnic Studies Matters: Compassion and Solidarity in Times of Strife

Nov. 15, 2016

This forum will discuss how to respectfully support the Indigenous activists and families in Standing Rock, and additionally will provide a space of empathy and support for those who feel afflicted by the 2016 election results, especially around issues of race, gender, and immigration status.

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CNAIS faculty Stephen Graham Jones on Transcending Stereotypes

Nov. 15, 2016

Stephen Graham Jones at CU. Photo credit: Anthony Camera University 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 interviewed this month by Jenny Shank in High Country...

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Secrets of the Andean Skies

Nov. 10, 2016

Join CU Astronomy and Astrophysics professor and CNAIS Affiliate, Dr. John Stocke, for his upcoming talk on Indigenous cosmological knowledge.

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American Indian Law Students Create Video Voting Guide

Nov. 7, 2016

Julia LaManna, Johanna Kron, Carla Fredericks, and Derik Goatson at CU Law Although 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 Mountain Ute Reservation in southern Colorado. The only community polling place...

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Udall Scholarship Info Session

Oct. 19, 2016

CU student Zhashki Anangikwe (Sasha) Strong will present opportunities available through the Udall Foundation for Native American undergrads, grads, and law students.

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Dean Anaya meets with UN General Assembly President

Oct. 11, 2016

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 Law CU Law School Dean James Anaya was recently in the news for his meeting with U.N. General Assembly President, Peter Thomson. Prior...

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ELOKA: Sharing a Way of Life

Oct. 11, 2016

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 Northern Bering Sea: Our Way of Life in hardcopy, but...

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CNAIS Faculty Greg Johnson - Indigenous Spiritual Beliefs and Protests

Sept. 30, 2016

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 American protest movements, as has its connection to the environmentalist struggle. But religious scholars...

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