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 premiere scholarly meeting in Native studies. The association has over 500 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 job announcement, 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. If you are not a NAISA member and want to post a job announcement, please contact 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 nearly 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 Mon, 02/08/2010 - 18:37

"Twilight" and the Quileute

UCLA's Angela Riley, who is on the NAISA program in Tucson (and, thus, will presumably be signing up for NAISA membership any day now) has an op-ed in the New York Times today about the Quileute Nation and the vampires of "Twilight." Read more for an excerpt and the link:

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Submitted by ERIC CHEYFITZ on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 14:38

The Ward Churchill Case

NAISA has posted a link to the Ellen Schrecker article on Ward Churchill published in the AAUP online Journal of Academic Freedom. Schrecker was never a part of the case

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Submitted by warrior on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 02:03

Preliminary program now posted

The preliminary program listing the 133 sessions of the 2nd annual NAISA meeting is now available on the 2010 NAISA meeting website:

http://naisa.ais.arizona.edu/sites/naisa.ais.arizona.edu/files/TucsonPre...

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Submitted by warrior on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 13:14

Tucson travel tips

The New York Times travel section did a recent "36 hours in...." feature on Tucson. Check it out if you want to see what we are getting ourselves into for May, and if you know Tucson better than the New York Times, or in a more Indigenous way, please leave some comments for those who will be visiting for the first time. Here's the link:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/travel/03hours.html

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Submitted by warrior on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 14:44

Using your naisa.org user account

Everyone on the NAISA membership list has a user account for this website. You'll need to activate this account to vote in NAISA elections, and you can use it to comment on blog posts. Click read more for instructions on activating your account.

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