Events

Join us on Saturday (5/2) and Sunday (5/3) at Wallis Annenberg Stadium for our 41st Annual Powwow! Organized by UCLA’s American Indian Student Association (AISA), this event is free and open to the public. Paid parking is available in Lots #4 and #7 for $16/day. Please refer to the event flyer for additional info , ...

Join us on Saturday (5/2) and Sunday (5/3) at Wallis Annenberg Stadium for our 41st Annual Powwow! Organized by UCLA’s American Indian Student Association (AISA), this event is free and open to the public. Paid parking is available in Lots #4 and #7 for $16/day. Please refer to the event flyer for additional info , ...

Join us on Thursday (5/7) for a special talk and visit by Dr. Courtney Lewis (enrolled citizen, Cherokee Nation). Dr. Lewis is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke University and the Founding Director of the university’s first Native American Studies research program. Learn more about her work and view , ...

Join us on Tuesday (5/12) for a book talk by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Organized by the Department of American Indian Studies (DAIS) as part of its Special Speaker Series, this event will highlight her recent Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead (2025).   , ...

Hear from our students at this year’s American Indian Studies Research Symposium! Organized by UCLA’s Department of American Indian Studies, this gathering will feature student scholarship in and at the intersection of American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Interested in presenting? Register at: https://fo , ...

Join us for the Rezisting Borderlands Symposium hosted by UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology on Thursday (6/28) in Fowler Building Room A222. This all day program will center the Native American alternative music community and howsounds and music are sites of resistance , ...

Join our community for a night of Indigenous film with post-screening discussions at The Land That Breathes (Saturday, (5/12))! This film festival will showcase the work of Native women filmmakers whose creative vision(s) speak to the relations between (Native) community and land: Cassandra Kihúut Alaniz (payómkawish, , ...