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Cherokee elder Crosslin Smith discusses tribal land conservation with Clint Carroll. Photo by Myra Robertson. At the top of the page is an image of wild senna/gvhnage (Senna marilandica), one of the culturally significant plants Carroll is focused
CNAIS faculty and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Law Sarah Krakoff will be teaching a seminar focusing on the law and policy affecting the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ River. Krakoff's legal specialty concentrates on American Indian law,
CNAIS Faculty Executive Board member Andrew Cowell and doctoral student Irina Wagner are part of an effort to save the language with the Arapaho Language Project. They fear Arapaho will fade away after the fluent elderly speakers are gone.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Law & CNAIS Core Faculty Charles WilkinsonOn Wed., Dec. 28, 2016, President Barack Obama announced the designation of Bears Ears National Monument, a measure conceived in part by Professor Charles Wilkinson. The president’s designation
Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez awarded ACLS fellowshipCNAIS Core Faculty, Gerardo Gutierrez is a professor of Anthropology and one of six Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ faculty to win American Council of Learned Societes (ACLS). His project studies documents created in 17th and 18th
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,
Stephen Graham Jones at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ. Photo credit: Anthony CameraUniversity 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 Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ was
Julia LaManna, Johanna Kron, Carla Fredericks, and Derik Goatson at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ LawAlthough Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ 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
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: Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ LawÅ·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Law School Dean James Anaya was recently in the news for his meeting
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