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 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
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
Chairman Dave Archambault II Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Building 1 North Standing Rock Ave Fort Yates, ND 58530 August 17, 2016 Dear Chairman Archambault, I am writing to express the support of the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) at UCLA for the historic struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline. … Read more
Chairman Dave Archambault II Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Building 1 North Standing Rock Ave Fort Yates, ND 58530 August 17, 2016 Dear Chairman Archambault, I am writing to express the support of the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) at UCLA for the historic struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline. … Read more
Click here for the Spanish version. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2016 Urgent Forum: The Murder of Lenca Activist Berta Cáceres and the future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Rights in Honduras American Indian Studies Center UCLA Contact: Dr. Shannon Speed Phone: (512) 470-0341 Email: sspeed@aisc.ucla.edu On April 8, 2016 an Urgent Forum organized by the … Read more
Click here for the Spanish version. President Juan Orlando Hernández Casa Presidencial Bulevar Juan Pablo II Tegucigalpa, Honduras FAX: 504 2221 4570 March 4, 2016 Mr. President, The American Indian Studies Center at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) expresses its condemnation of the murder of Lenca activist Berta Cáceres. The targeting and … Read more