NAIS publishes the best interdisciplinary scholarship in international Native American and Indigenous Studies. The journal provides an intellectually rigorous and ethically engaged forum for smart, provocative, and exciting scholarship while drawing on the extraordinary professional expertise of our ever-expanding membership in a process of double-anonymous peer review. NAIS provides a forum to place different kinds of research, intellectual traditions, and knowledge practices in conversation.
We encourage all faculty, instructors, and students to download NAIS articles directly from your library’s online portal. Please do not provide or use shared PDF files. Each “click” through a library portal supports a journal financially, so please download from Project Muse (all issues available), JSTOR (volumes 1 through 8 only), and the like to access NAIS. UPDATE: As of January 2023, all NAISA membership purchases and renewals come with digital access to NAIS through Project MUSE. Previously, access to the digital version of NAIS was only available through academic institution library portals. This latest membership benefit allows independent scholars and unaffiliated community researchers access to not only the latest issue of NAIS, but the entire NAIS archive as well. Members will be emailed instructions on how to access digital NAIS at the beginning of the month following membership purchase or renewal.
NAIS publishes:
- Original scholarly manuscripts from all the areas encompassed within Indigenous Studies’ interdisciplinary range, including creative writing;
- Notes From the Field;
- Teaching Native American & Indigenous Studies;
- Reviews
Editorial Team
The editors’ goal is to extend understandings across disciplinary and epistemological boundaries and learn more about the important work going on in scores of different fields and regions. Studies grounded in Indigenous research methodologies are especially encouraged. All empirical studies must document: (1) the use of accepted ethical protocols for research with human subjects; and (2) site-specific approvals when required, including research and/or institutional review board approvals required by Native nations, tribes, or bands.
Co-Editors (2023): Gina Starblanket (Cree and Saulteaux and a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4 territory), University of Victoria, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), University of Victoria
Editorial Managers: Jessica L. Sánchez Flores and Adam Martinez, University of Texas at Austin
Founding Co-Editors (2013-2019): Jean M. O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), University of Minnesota, and Robert Warrior (Osage), University of Kansas
Membership Access
All NAISA membership purchases and renewals come with digital access to the journal NAIS through Project MUSE. Previously, access to the digital version of NAIS was only available through academic institution library portals. This membership benefit allows independent scholars and unaffiliated community researchers access to not only the latest issue of NAIS, but the entire NAIS archive. Members will be emailed instructions on how to access digital NAIS at the beginning of the month following membership purchase or renewal.
Subscribe or Purchase Issues
NAIS is published twice a year by the University of Minnesota Press
Shipping for Back Issues:
- Inside the U.S.: $6.00 for the first issue and $1.25 for each additional issue.
- Outside the U.S.: $9.50 for the first issue and $6.00 for each additional issue.
Publishers and distributors can send queries, catalogs, or materials for review consideration to: journal@naisa.org.