About NAISA

The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association is a professional organization dedicated to supporting scholars and others who work in the academic field of Native American and Indigenous studies. Founded in 2008, NAISA hosts the premier scholarly meeting in Native studies. The association has more than 600 members from over a dozen countries and scores of Indigenous nations and peoples. We welcome anyone working in the field to join us in building the future of Native and Indigenous studies.

This website provides basic information about the association and links to our upcoming annual meeting hosted by American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona.

Posting to naisa.org

If you have a CFP, situation alert, or other notice to post, you can do so on the NAISA blog. Anyone can read the blog, but only members who have authenticated their user accounts can post entries or make comments.

If posting a job announcement, please click on Create Content on the menu in the right column and create a job posting. Only NAISA members can post job announcements. If you have a job announcement but are not a member, please ask a NAISA member to help, or send the announcement to rwarrior@illinois.edu

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

Hawe, aloha, and kia ora!

Welcome to the NAISA website. If you are not a NAISA member, let me offer a special welcome on behalf of the more than 600 members of the association. I look forward to being together in Tucson with both long-time supporters and people joining us for the first time. I hope to see you there!

Robert Warrior
NAISA President 2009-10

Submitted by warrior on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 10:32

Comparative repatriation

It's always interesting to see how Indigenous issues intersect and play out in different locales.

Attached to this post are letters that arrived via Vicki Grieves regarding a repatriation case an Aboriginal community near Sydney raised with Prince William on his recent visit to Australia.

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Submitted by warrior on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 22:44

Combating Childhood Obesity in Indian Country

This just in from the Obama Administration...
(http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/obesity_in_indian_country_1.html)

Posted March 09, 2010
By Kimberly Teehee, Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs, White House Domestic Policy Council

In his address on the State of the Union, President Obama announced that First Lady Michelle Obama would be taking the lead in the Administration’s efforts “to tackle the epidemic of childhood obesity.” Two weeks later, on February 9, the First Lady unveiled a nationwide campaign – Let’s Move! – to fight the epidemic and improve the health of children. An integral part of the First Lady’s campaign will be to work with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, where childhood obesity rates are particularly high.

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Submitted by warrior on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:41

UN Special Rapporteur report on Indigenous Australia

University of Arizona Law professor James Anaya, in his role as Special Rapporteur for the UN, has issued a report on the status of Indigenous Australians and Torres Straits Islanders. Here's the link: http://www.un.org.au/Special-Rapporteur-on-Indigenous--Australia-Report-...

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Submitted by warrior on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 01:25

Do you know these people from Princeton 1970?

In March, 1970, over 200 people attended the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars in Princeton, New Jersey in the US, so this is the fortieth anniversary. I am working on a way to recognize those who attended this historic meeting during our NAISA meeting in Tucson, but could use some help figuring out who from the participant list might still be around these days.

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Submitted by warrior on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 15:44

Using your naisa.org user account

Everyone on the NAISA membership list from 2009 has a user account for this website. New members for 2010 need to follow a couple of different steps that are outlined below and in a separate blog post.

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