[Vice News] Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Incoming faculty member, Professor Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear interviewed on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women for Vice News. — Click on the image to view the video
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Native Bruins: Past, Present & Emerging – Reuben Duane Bending
This December we are highlighting Native Bruin Reuben Duane Bending from the Yakama tribe. Reuben Duane Bending was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His parents moved from Phoenix to Los Angeles in 1956, after his father attended Phoenix Indian School and his mother attended Cook Bible College. Reuben attended UCLA from the fall … Read more
[Daily Bruin] Op-ed: Americans should remember and honor Native American roots every day
By Kat High and Shannon Speed November 27, 2020 Nov. 27 is Native American Heritage Day. The first American Indian Day was celebrated in New York in May of 1916. The event brought to fruition the work of Red Fox Skiukusha of the Blackfeet Nation, who rode 4,000 miles across the country on horseback, eventually … Read more
[The Source] Native American Hip Hop: Rhymes and Stories from the City to the Rez
By Kyle Mays November 30, 2020 November is Native American Heritage Month. But how many people knew that? Better yet, how many people know that Native Americans—the Indigenous people of this land—are still here? During this month, it presents an opportunity for all of us to reflect on a history of genocide, and to consider … Read more
[CNN] Indigenous people across the US want their land back — and the movement is gaining momentum
November 25, 2020 By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN)Around this time every year, Americans come together to share a feast commemorating a myth about its first inhabitants. An indigenous tribe did eat with the Pilgrims in 1621 and sign a treaty with the colonists that had settled on their shores — an act of survival rather … Read more
Behind the Scenes with the Fowler Museum Archaeology Collections Facility: Actualizing Land Acknowledgments
By Wendy Teeter, Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky, and Desiree Martinez The Fowler Museum Archaeology Collections Facility has been in charge of UCLA’s compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) since 1990, which has resulted in many collaborations between local Indigenous tribes, Fowler staff, and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, among other campus … Read more
Director Shannon Speed’s Forthcoming Edited Volume, Indigenous Women and Violence Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice
INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND VIOLENCE FEMINIST ACTIVIST RESEARCH IN HEIGHTENED STATES OF INJUSTICE EDITED BY LYNN STEPHEN AND SHANNON SPEED How Indigenous women experience and resist systemic violence Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous … Read more
Native Bruins: Past, Present & Emerging – Clementine Bordeaux
This November we are highlighting Native Bruin Clementine Bordeaux from the Sicangu Lakóta Oyáte tribe. Clementine Bordeaux is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakóta Oyáte and was raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She is the youngest daughter of Christopher and Deborah Bordeaux. She comes from a long line of educators, with her maternal … Read more
Professor Nancy Marie Mithlo’s New Book, “Making History IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts” Released
Congratulations to Professor Nancy Marie Mithlo who just recently released a new book, “Making History IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts” (UNM Press)! NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: Eric Davis, Marketing & Communications Director 505.424.2351 or eric.davis@iaia.edu For press images contact: Sallie Wesaw 505.428.5908 or swesaw@iaia.edu Institute of American Indian Arts IAIA … Read more
Native Bruins: Past, Present & Emerging – Patrick Naranjo
This October we are highlighting Native Bruin Patrick Naranjo from the Santa Clara Pueblo tribe. Dr. Foremost, I am a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo and a graduate from Haskell Indian Nations University. I hold an M.A. from UCLA in American Indian Studies with an emphasis on contemporary tribal cultural property protections. I am … Read more