Congratulations to Associate Professor Benjamin Madley whose book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe won the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide. http://studyofgenocide.org/lemkin/
By David Zanniser June 15, 2017, 5:00 AM A key panel of the Los Angeles City Council endorsed a plan Wednesday to take Columbus Day off the city calendar and put in its place a new Indigenous Peoples Day, despite opposition from Italian American civic leaders and some city lawmakers. The council’s Rules, Elections, Intergovernmental … Read more
Jessica Wolf | June 15, 2017 The first women of Tongva descent to be awarded Ph.D.s at UCLA celebrated that milestone today at the Graduate Division Doctoral Hooding, held on a campus that now sits on the ancient land of their ancestors. Theresa Jean Ambo and Yve Chavez of the Tongva Tribal Nation proudly stood … Read more
By Jory Rand LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A proposal to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is one step closer to reality in the city of Los Angeles. The rules committee voted unanimously Wednesday night in favor of the change, but the proposal still needs full council approval. “I feel hopeful and I am … Read more
By Liz Ohanesian April 13, 2017 On a side wall at the San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center, deep inside “First Peoples: A Celebration of Native Artists in Southern California, a 29-artist exhibition, Rowan D. Harrison’s pottery is an immediate attention-grabber. In “Reservation Plates,” the Fullerton-based artist places three earthenware clay plates, each one … Read more
By Jessica Wolf | February 14, 2017 Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA will donate approximately half of the profits from Royce Hall’s Feb. 15 presentation of “Dirtsong” to UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center (AISC). “Dirtsong” features Australian Indigenous music-theater troupe Black Arm Band. Addressing American Indian issues and supporting Indian communities, AISC … Read more
By: Katherine Kang , Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio Tuesday, December 6, 2016 On Sunday, the Army Corps Of Engineers blocked a company from building the rest of the controversial North Dakota pipeline. For months, thousands of people near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation have been fighting to stop the project. They continue to celebrate the ruling … Read more
The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies By Patrick Wolfe The essays in this volume confront the assimilationist agendas in settler-colonial states around the world that seek to erase the distinct histories and current status of Indigenous peoples as sovereign peoples. In the introduction, editor Patrick Wolfe provocatively asks whether the repudiation of binarism … Read more
by Jacklyn Kim and Natalie Chudnovsky | AirTalk December 01 2016 North Dakota’s governor has set an eviction date for December 5, but there are no plans for forcible removal of the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, which has led to confusion. Thousands of protesters, who call themselves “water protectors,” continue  to camp near the stretch … Read more
Message from the Director Dear AISC friends, We have received notice that the LA City Council will vote on the proposal to establish Indigenous Peoples Day on November 4 (see below). I strongly encourage those with an interest in this matter to attend the meeting. It is important that our voices be heard. We will … Read more