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CU Law is again offering it's Mini Law School Fall 2016, including a class on American Indian Law taught by CNAIS Affiliate Faculty, Sarah Krakoff . This popular offering is open to anyone and is also available to be live-streamed. Classes run from September 3, 2016 - November 1, 2016. Space is limited.

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, 2016 ICWA was passed by Congress in 1978 to address a national crisis. Surveys by the Association for American...

Recognizing that Boulder "has benefited directly from Indian removal policies that violated human rights," the City Council voted unanimously, and joyfully, late Tuesday night to make Boulder 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://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/strong-statements

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 Aug. 8, 2016. Anaya’s teaching and writing...

CU-Boulder students Bridger Ruyle and Zhashki (Sasha) Strong have been selected as 2016 Udall Scholars, becoming the ninth and tenth CU-Boulder students to be honored with the scholarship since its inception in 1996. Ruyle and Strong were among 60 students from 49 colleges and universities across the nation honored by...

CNAIS Faculty & VC of Diversity, Bob Boswell at Native Graduation What'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 series that featured guests and CU faculty that are experts in...

CU History & CNAIS Faculty Elizabeth Fenn CNAIS Affiliate Faculty, Elizabeth (Lil) Fenn was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Encounters At the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People" in April, 2015. Dr. Fenn is Professor and Chair at the Department of History and her...