By Jessica Wolf | August 07, 2018 Shannon Speed, professor of anthropology and director of UCLA’s American Indian Studies Research Center, has been named president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Speed takes on a three-year leadership role in the professional organization that promotes scholarship and research into indigenous peoples from around the … Read more
Please distribute widely. APPLY TODAY: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03903 Job #JPF03903 INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES – AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES CENTER Recruitment Period Open date: July 16th, 2018 Next review date: August 13th, 2018 Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: September 10th, 2018 Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, … Read more
Congratulations to Professor Benjamin Madley!! His book, An American Genocide, just won the Charles Redd Center-Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book on the American West
From LA to the Bay and everywhere in between, we are coming together to support our relatives in Northern California who are impacted by the Sulfur fire and the other fires occurring in Napa and Sonoma Counties. We are collecting clothing, gift card, and food donations in an effort to support Native American families affected … Read more
By Hedy Wang Posted: October 10, 2017 1:38 am A tribal elder of the FernandeñoTataviam Band of Mission Indians burned sage in the air as the chair of the Los Angeles City and County Indian Commission gave a blessing to all those present at an Indigenous Peoples Day celebration Monday. The event, which was hosted by … Read more
The American Indian Culture and Research Journal is seeking applicants for its Editor-in-Chief position. Key qualities and qualifications sought include an established record of scholarship in the field; managerial skills to oversee the editorial cycle and meet deadlines; the ability to recruit quality manuscripts; the ability to attract respected experts to the editorial board; the … Read more
By Jessica Wolf August 2, 2017 Tongva educator Julia Bogany was interviewed recently by her great-granddaughter Marissa Aranda for a school report. The 11-year-old asked her great-grandmother: “How do you feel to be a Native American woman?” Bogany answered honestly: “I feel invisible.” “That is exactly how I feel,” Marissa replied. This exchange between two … Read more
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