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

Cherokee Sacred Lands Threatened

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) in North Carolina asks your help in saving Kituwah Mound, all that is left of the “Mother Town” of the Cherokees.

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.

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-...

MLA 2011 CFP: Lit Representations, Indigenous Migrations

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR MLA 2011. DEADLINE EXTENDED!

COLLABORATIVE SESSION BETWEEN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION DIVISION ON AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES AND DIVISION ON CHICANA AND CHICANO LITERATURE

Literary representations, Indigenous migrations en las Américas

Within and across borders of the United States. Configurations of indigeneity, relocations from rural to urban, and the growing presence of Spanish-speaking Indigenous migrants.

Abstracts and 1-page cv by 12 March 2010 to Sheila Marie Contreras (sheilac@msu.edu)

CFP: Annual Geneva Native Studies Master Class

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

THE ANNUAL GENEVA NATIVE STUDIES MASTERCLASS

Applications are invited from advanced research students (MA, PhD, and postdoc) and early career researchers in Native Studies to participate in a

ONE-DAY MASTERCLASS

hosted by the University of Geneva on FRIDAY 7 MAY, 2010.

The class will be conducted by

PROFESSOR AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON
(Queensland University of Technology, Director of the Indigenous Studies Research Network, member of the NAISA Nominations Committee)

CFP: Animal Studies and American Indian Literatures

Animal Studies and American Indian Literatures
Dustin Gray and Brian K. Hudson

Mashpee Wampanoag Recording Artist & Producer Sweeps NEUMA Nominations!!!

BOSTON - "The Liberation Sessions" has definitely made an impression on the music scene in New England as a perusal of the New England Urban Music Awards nomination page will reveal. Mwalim received nominations for Best R&B CD, Best Spoken-word Artist, Best Producer, Best Caribbean Male Vocalist, Best R&B Single, and Best Caribbean Single for DEM BIG GIRLS.

Volunteers needed for NAISA projects

NAISA is looking for volunteers to help out with some upcoming initiatives, including a bibliography project, a website/technical committee, and an effort through which we hope to find ways to involve graduate students in the work and development of the association. Interested? Keep reading!

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.