Bruin Highlight: Past, Present & Future This September 2024 we are highlighting Native Bruin Catie Galbraith from the Chickasaw Nation with an MA in American Indian Studies class of 2024. We are pleased to introduce our current Student Services Advisor in the American Indian Studies Department at UCLA and our September UCLA Native Bruin highlight. … Read more
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
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
By Angela Aleiss March 27, 2014 The recently restored 1928 version of Ramona will have its world premiere on March 29 in Los Angeles. Based on a weepy, once-popular novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona tells the story of a mixed-race (Scottish and American Indian) girl who is raised by a Mexican family and suffers racial … Read more
Nov 13, 2009 By Kelsey Sharpe UCLA Today: http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/linguistics-professor–chickasaw-elder-win-prestigious-book-prize.aspx Pamela Munro, professor of linguistics, and Chickasaw native speaker Catherine Willmond have won the 2010 Bloomfield Book Award for their new book “Let’s Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa’ Kilanompoli.’” The biennial award, presented by the Linguistics Society of America since 1992, recognizes “the volume which makes the most … Read more