Native American Studies

In 2009, Gerald Vizenor, UNM Distinguished Professor of American Studies, was both a delegate and principal author of the first constitution to be ratified by a native group. The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives of Minnesota ratified their new ...

The University of New Mexico's College of Nursing hosts a Qualitative Cafe Brown bag Thursday, April 12, from noon-1 p.m., room 252 in the College of Nursing. Speaker Nancy M. Mithlo, professor in the Department of Art History and American Indian Studies ...

Jennifer Nez Denetdale grew up in Tohatchi, N.M., a Navajo community 25 miles north of Gallup. She and her three sisters and one brother never missed school, she said, because her father insisted they become educated. "We always had books in our home. ...

Andrew Offenburger, the Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar, presents, "When the American West Turned South: Development and Dispossession in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands," Wednesday, Oct. 26 at noon in the Waters Room in the UNM Zimmerman ...

In 2010 UNM joined the Newberry Library Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS). Since then, Cathleen Cahill, assistant professor of history, and Jennifer Nez Denetdale, associate professor of American studies, have been collaborating with other ...

The University of New Mexico's Native American student organization, the Native American Studies Indigenous Research Group (NASIRG), hosts Indigenous Day on Monday Oct. 10. Indigenous day is a protest and alternative to Columbus Day that emphasizes ...

The ¡Globalquerque! presentation "Hand-to-Tongue: A Celebration of Threatened Languages" features four affiliated with UNM – alumni Lisa Gill and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, graduate student Tanaya Winder and dual enrollment student Reed Bobroff – at 1 p.m. ...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of American Studies Jennifer Nez Denetdale is filling the position on the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission that requires an "extensive background in education," according to the Commission. Her ...

University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of American Studies Gerald Vizenor is the recipient of the 2011 American Book Award for Shrouds of White Earth. The award is presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. The book is about contemporary ...

The UNM Office for Equity & Inclusion presents a "UNM Talking Circle" on "Obama, Osama, Geronimo & Mejía: Interrupting Nationalism & Racism as National Security," Wednesday, May 11 from 12-1:30 p.m. in the UNM Student Union Building Mirage/Thunderbird ...