Past Events

2021
  • Conversation with Mercedes Dorame and River Garza
    Saturday, July 17, 2021, 12 - 1 pm, Zoom
    The Map and the Territory includes two site-specific installations by Tongva artists Mercedes Dorame and River Garza.Featuring objects excavated in Southern California, along with archival materials from the Fowler’s archaeological collection, the installations prompt viewers to examine the processes by which institutions like the Fowler acquire, catalog, store, and study objects from Indigenous communities. The installations give new meanings to these objects, creating new spaces of intersection and understanding. Join the artists, the Fowler’s Chief Curator Matthew H. Robb, and Senior Curator of Archaeology Wendy Teeter for a conversation about these installations; the artists’ current projects; the systems that have brought such objects to the Fowler; and the ongoing dialogues between tribal communities and museums.
    Hosted by the UCLA Fowler Museum. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Two Spirit History & Perspectives of Identity
    Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 3 pm - 4:30 pm, Zoom
    Join UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center for an afternoon Zoom presentation on the meaning of the term “Two Spirit (2S)” with Elton Naswood (Diné), Caleb Dunlap (Ojibwe) and Jessica C. Shutiva (Diné). Elton will provide historical and contemporary perspectives on the Two Spirit identity and explain cultural views of Indigenous sexuality and gender identities. Thereafter, he will be joined by Caleb and Jessica to discuss varying perspectives on the Two Spirit identity as well as personal stories about being Native and LGBTQ2S.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • UCLA American Indian Graduation
    Saturday, June 12, 2021, 6 pm - 7:30 pm, Zoom
    In honoring the graduating class of 2021!
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program; Cosponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Red Road to DC: A Totem Pole Journey for the Protection of Sacred Places
    Friday, June 11, 2021, 11 am - 1:00 pm, Between Dickson Court North and Dodd Hall
    West Coast Tour; UCLA Stop in Tovaangar
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Freedom and Fugitivity
    Friday, June 11, 2021, 10 am - 11:30 am, Zoom
    Part of the The Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism
    Hosted by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • 4th Annual Nahuatl Conference at UCLA
    Wednesday, June 4, 2021, 12 PM, Zoom
    This free webinar features new research and teaching on Mesoamerica by 3 native-speakers of the Nahuatl language, 3 advanced students at UCLA, 4 scholars from Mexico and Los Angeles, and 3 high school teachers from the LA Unified School District. Nahuatl is the language spoken by the Mexica or Aztecs, and it is still spoken today by about a million people in Mexico.
    Cosponsored by the Latin American Institute, UCLA International Institute, Department of History, Stanford Latin American Center; University of Utah Latin American Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; IDIEZ; UCLA Center for Mexican Studies; UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles: Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores
  • A Rare Indigenous Manuscript from Early Colonial Mexico, 1550–1564
    Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 12 PM, Zoom
    Translated and Analyzed by Kevin Terraciano, Professor of History, Dr. E. Bradford Burns Chair of Latin American Studies, and Director of the Latin American Institute, UCLA in a conversation with Professor Felicia López, UC Merced
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Department of History, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Film Screening: 499 and Q&A with Director Rodrigo Reyes
    Thursday, May 27, 2021, 1 PM, Zoom
    To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, director Rodrigo Reyes offers a bold, hybrid cinema experience, mixing non-fictional and performative elements with components of a road movie. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, Reyes recreates Hernán Cortez's epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with real victims of Mexico's failed drug wars, the filmmaker portrays the country's current humanitarian crisis as part of a brutal and unfinished colonial project, still in motion, 499 years later.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Department of History, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • 1521: Perspectivas Indígenas Cinco Siglos Después
    Thursday, May 27, 2021, 10 AM, Zoom
    Five hundred years ago, the Mexica (also known as Aztec) civilization was invaded and conquered by Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés and his indigenous allies. Since then, the days have been marked by the legacies of that invasion. Join the Latin American Institute and the Center for Mexican Studies to hear from four indigenous intellectuals from Mexico discuss what the “Conquest” means to them today.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Department of History, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • The Roots & Persistence of White Nationalism in the United States
    Thursday, May 20, 2021, 12:30 PM, Zoom
    Featuring Hector Amaya, Ginna Green, and Shannon Speed, this conversation engages the origins of white nationalism in the United States, and its longevity across generations, geographies, and political moments.
    Sponsored by Repair, and co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Ikar, the Critical Race Studies Program at the UCLA School of Law, Temple Beth Am, the Native Nations Law & Policy Center at the UCLA School of Law, and Bend the Arc Jewish Action.
  • Water Ties: An Everglades Ethnography
    Thursday, May 20, 2021, 12:15 PM, Zoom
    A talk by Associate Professor Jessica Cattelino, Department of Anthropology.
    Hosted by CPSC. Co-sponosored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Indigenous STS, Governance, and Decolonization
    Thursday, May 13, 2021, 12:15 PM, Zoom
    Lecture by Kim TallBear, Phd, University of Alberta. Like traditional Science and Technology Studies, the new field of Indigenous STS studies the cultures, politics, and histories of non-Indigenous science and technology efforts.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution & Culture, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics, and UCLA Department of Anthropology.
  • Meet the Author: Chris Stark, Carnival Lights
    Friday, April 30, 2021, 4 PM, Zoom
    Join us on Friday, April 30th at 4pm PST/6pm CST/7pm EST in honor of the forthcoming publication of Chris Stark's new novel about missing and murdered indigenous relations. In addition to a reading by author, the event features commentary by indigenous author Julian Aguon.
    Co-sponsored by Repair and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Thinking Gender 2021: "Care, Mutual Aid, and Reproductive Labor in a Time of Crisis"
    Wednesday-Friday, April 28-30, 2021, 8 AM – 5 PM, Zoom
    Thinking Gender 2021 will focus on feminist, queer, trans, transnational, Indigenous, and intersectional approaches to care, mutual aid, and reproductive labor.
    Hosted by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • More Than Pocahontas, Less Than Matoaka - Dr. Bethany Hughes
    Thursday, April 22, 2021, 4 PM – 5 PM, Zoom
    This talk begins to take up these questions by analyzing Pocahontas and Nima in Barker's and Bray's 1807 The Indian Princess; or, La Belle Sauvage alongside Nahmeokee in John Augustus Stone's Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoag. Drawing on Indigenous feminist critique Dr. Bethany Hughes performs dramaturgical and textual analyses to articulate the construction of women through redface.
    Organized by Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa and co-sponsored by UCLA's American Indian Studies Center, Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance
  • Decolonizing Indigenous Migration: Violence, Settler Capitalism, Gender and Law
    Monday, April 5, 2021, 4 PM – 5 PM, Zoom
    Presentations by Shannon Speed ((Chickasaw) Professor of Gender Studies & Anthropology, and Director of the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA), Kristen Carpenter (Council Tree Professor of Law, and Director of the American Indian Law Program at University of Colorado Law School), and Angela Riley ((Potawatomi) Professor of Law, and Director of Native Nations Law and Policy Center, UCLA School of Law). How is the violence to which indigenous women migrants are subjected related to “neoliberal multicriminalism” and settler structures of indigenous dispossession and elimination? And how might migration law consider the colonial origins and impacts that undergird state policies on territorial sovereignty and border regulation?
    Hosted by CRG's Native/Immigrant/Refugee - Crossings Research Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, Native American Studies at UC Berkeley, American Indian Studies Center at UCLA, Native Nations Law and Policy Center at UCLA Law, and the University of Colorado American Indian Law Program.
  • Special Rapportuer on the Rights of Indigenous People
    Monday, April 5, 2021, 9 AM & 10:15 AM, Zoom
    The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Francisco Calí Tzay will speak on "Challenges Concerning the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Defense of the Territories of Indigenous and Afrodescendent Peoples," in conversation with Honduran leader Bertha Zuñiga Cáceres, Coordinator of the Lenca organization COPINH, and Dr. Rony Castillo, Garífuna intellectual and activist working closely with the Garífuna organization OFRANEH / El Relator Especial de los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas hablará sobre "Desafíos en Materia de Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas y en Defensa de los Territorios de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afrodescendientes," en conversación con la lídereza Hondureña Bertha Zuñiga Cáceres, Coordinadora de la organización Lenca COPINH, y Dr. Rony Castillo, intelectual y activista Garífuna trabajando de cerca con al organización Garífuna OFRANEH.
    Hosted by the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Latin American Institute, COPINH, Mision de Observacion Calificada.
  • An Afternoon Discussion with Amanda Blackhorse and Suzan Harjo
    Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 3 PM & 4:30 PM, Zoom
    Join UCLA's American Indian Studies Center for an afternoon Zoom discussion about the removal of Native American mascots and the continuing fight for Native American rights. Amanda Blackhorse (Navajo), and Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) will discuss their ongoing advocacy to remove stereotypical mascots in sports teams, schools and monuments. The talk will be moderated by UCLA American Indian Studies Center Director Shannon Speed (Chickasaw Nation).
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • An Afternoon Talk with Debbie Reese and Princess Lucaj-Johnson about the Advocacy of American Indian Children's Literature
    Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 3 PM & 4:30 PM, Zoom
    Join UCLA's American Indian Studies Center for an afternoon talk focusing on the importance of teaching children about American Indians through appropriate children's literature and animated programs. Dr. Debbie Reese (Nambé Pueblo), a critic and scholar and founder of the blog American Indians in Children's Literature, and Princess Lucaj-Johnson (Neets'aii Gwich'in) a producer of PBS' Molly of Denali, will lead the talk, and UCLA graduate student Clementine Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) will moderate.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Meet the Author: Julian Aguon, The Properties of Perpetual Light
    Friday, March 12, 2021, 4 PM & 5 PM, Zoom
    Celebrating the forthcoming publication of: The Properties of Perpetual Light By Julian Aguon featuring readings by the author, and commentary by Alina Ball, Christine Stark & Jason Wu
    Hosted by Repair. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • UCLA Asian American Studies Center Film Festival 2021
    Sunday, February 21, 2021, 2 PM & 5 PM, Zoom
    The UCLA Asian American Studies Center in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive will continue to celebrate the legacy of Asian American Studies at UCLA with a virtual film festival! Over two weekends, we will present online programming featuring powerful imagery and poignant commentary about meaningful issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Audiences will hear from filmmakers and actors on their creative journeys, as well as from scholars, artists, and community leaders on themes that apply to today's world.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Gather - A Documentary Screening
    February 26, 2021, 2 PM, Zoom
    Join us for a film panel discussion on Gather featuring panelists: Sanjay Rawal, Nephi Craig, and Tria Blu Wakpa. Film screen privately from February 19 to 28.
    Hosted by the UCLA Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program. Co-sponsored by the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA (EatWell Pod), UCLA Food Studies Undergraduate Minor, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Contact: Performing Proximity
    Friday-Sunday, February 19-21, 2021, All day, Zoom
    Join us to explore the theme of "Contact" with our keynote speakers, graduate student panels, and featured perfomances.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • IAC Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies Workshop
    Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 12:30 pm, Zoom
    Join us at our workshop to learn more about the IAC Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies. We will discuss the grants, the application process, and share tips!
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Indigenous Stewardship & Environmental Justice: A Conversation with Winona LaDuke
    Monday, January 25 2021, 6 pm, Zoom
    Come listen to activist and environmentalist Winona LaDuke, who will discuss indigenous culture and activism, climate change, land rights, and our environmental future!
    Hosted by the Associated Students of UC San Diego, Office of External Affairs. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.

2020
  • Food Systems, Water Rights, and COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation
    Friday, December 11, 2020, 11 AM, Zoom
    Join UCLA AISC and Institut des Amériques for an in-depth conversation about the struggles for food sovereignty and environmental justice during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Navajo Nation has been, and is still deeply impacted by Covid-19, in large part of the structural inequalities on Indigenous territories. What are the impacts of the pandemic for farmers and activists? What can and should be done?
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • The Inter-American System of Human Rights: Lights, shadows and new paths
    Thursday, December 10, 2020, 1 PM, Zoom
    A round-table discussion on the relevance and future of the the Inter-American Human Rights System. Moderating the discussion will be Promise Institute Visiting Professor James Cavallaro. Cavallaro was elected to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in June of 2013 and served as president of the Commission from 2016-2017. The discussion will be held in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation.
    Hosted by the Promise Institute for Human Rights; Co-sponsored by the University Network for Human Rights, UCLA Latin American Institute, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Revitalizing Ancestral Practices: The Ohlone Tule Boat Project
    Thursday, November 19, 2020, 3 pm, Zoom
    In 2018, the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe organized the Ohlone Youth Summit to reconnect tribal youth to their culture and ancestral lands. At Coyote Hills Regional Park, the youth gathered tule, which they used to build and sail a boat. This event will feature a short documentary about this project, Ohlone Youth Summit: Tule Boat Project.
    Hosted by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Curator's Choice: Marie Watt and Nancy Marie Mithlo
    Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 4 pm, Zoom
    Join the Fowler Museum, independent curator Nancy Marie Mithlo, and artist Marie Watt for a conversation about American Indian art, intellectual traditions, social activism, and the foundational practice of gratitude in Native communities. We'll take a look at some of Watt's most important, powerfully symbolic sculptural works informed by Indigenous knowledge, Iroquois proto-feminism, and American Indian matriarchal structures. Watt uses textiles, beads, cedar, and other materials conceptually attached to American Indian narratives in her work, which explores what it means to be a true “companion species.”
    Hosted by the UCLA Fowler Museum. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • 2020 IAC Fall Forum
    Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 3 pm, Zoom
    Join us in honoring the 2020-2021 IAC visiting scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees; followed by conversations featuring IAC scholars. Learn about the research and scholarship that the IAC and the four ethnic studies research centers are supporting.
    Hosted by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, Asian American Studies Center, American Indian Studies Center, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studiesn, and Chicano Studies Research Center. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Diversity Programs and Initiatives, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Department of Asian American Studies, Department of African American Studies, andDepartment of Chicana/o and Central American Studies.
  • UC GIS Week
    Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11 am, Zoom
    The UCLA American Indian Studies Center will be presenting the Hate Crime Map Project at UC GIS Week. The University of California GIS Week is an opportunity for you to learn and engage with experts and mapping projects across the UC system and beyond! Ask questions during the thematic mapping panels, engage with GIS industry professionals, interact with posters presenters, and connect during social events.
    Hosted by the University of California
  • 14th Annual L.A. SKINS Fest
    Wednesday-Friday, November 18-20, 2020, All day, Online
    The Festival is an initiative of the Native American non-profit the Barcid Foundation and aims to showcase the rising talent in Native American filmmaking. This year the LA SKINS FEST is expanding the screening series to accommodate the growing talent in Indian Country.
    Cosponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Categories, Identity and Objects: American Indian Art
    Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 4 PM, Zoom
    This online event features a talk by Rebecca Hernandez (MFA, PhD), Director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz. Her presentation will examine the inherent complexities in the academic study and public representation of American Indian culture(s), and how the categorization and defining of Native American objects aids in the construction of American Indian identity.
    Hosted by the Indigenous Material and Visual Culture of the Americas (IMVCA) Working group. Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Book Talk with Alan R. Parker
    Monday, November 16, 2020, 3 PM, Zoom
    Join UCLA AISC and NALSA as they host an afternoon talk with Native alumnus Alan R. Parker as he discusses his book Pathway to Indigenous Nation Sovereignty. The Pathways book devotes a chapter to each of the major legislative achievements that Alan Parker was involved with during his time as Chief Counsel and then Staff Director to the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. It tells the story of Parker's legislative accomplishments during his time serving in the US Senate.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Book Talk with Jesse Thistle
    Thursday, November 12, 2020, 3 PM, Zoom
    Join AISC and Assistant Professor Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear for an afternoon discussion with Jesse Thistle, a Métis-Cree from Saskatchewan, Canada. Thistle's debut book From the Ashes is a memoir about hope and resilience. The book explores his path of being abandoned as a child, living in the foster-care system, and homelessness to the redemptive transformation of overcoming addiction, embracing his First Nation roots and becoming a scholar.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Contextualizing and Revitalizing California Tribal Dances
    Thursday, November 12, 2020, 12 PM, Zoom
    This panel discussion brings together seven California tribal individuals from four nations: the Tongva, Chumash, Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe, and Winnemem Wintu.
    Hosted by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • IRT Webinar
    Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 11 AM, Zoom
    Monica Reum, Recruitment and Admission Programs Specialist at IRT will be hosting a 1-hour webinar. IRT provides a pathway for people seeking to pursue a MA or PhD program in the Arts, Humanities, Education or Social  Sciences. IRT participants receive application fee waivers, discounted GRE prep, and 1:1 personalized counseling around the graduate school application process, for free.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Best Practices in Journalism about American Indian and Indigenous Issues
    Friday, November 6, 2020, 4 PM, Zoom
    A workshop on developing Best Practices in Journalism about American Indian and Indigenous Issues by Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes).
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Indigenous Insights About Policing
    Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 4 PM, Zoom
    A virtual dialogue featuring Sarah Deer, Stephanie Lumsden, Dian Million, and Sandi Pierce, with introduction by Christine Stark.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative & Repair
  • Book Talk with Tommy Orange
    Thursday, October 15, 2020, 3 PM, Zoom
    An afternoon discussion with Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) on his book, There There, facilitated by Dr. Shannon Speed.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Breaking Down Borders: Indigenous Peoples' Relations and Resilience
    Monday, October 12, 2020, 11 AM, Zoom
    A roundtable discussion with Dr. Patrisia Gonzales, Nellie Jo David, Stanley Rodriguez, Juanita Cabrera Lopez, and Odilia Romero; moderated by Dr. Shannon Speed.
    Co-sponsored by the Promise Institute, American Indian Studies Center, Indigenous Alliance without Borders, International Mayan League, CIELO.
  • Sawyer Seminar on Sanctuary Spaces Inaugural Event
    Friday, October 9, 2020, 10 AM, Zoom
    Situated at the present historical conjuncture of resurgent white nationalism and xenophobia, this convening foregrounds the ongoing and renewed uprisings for Black freedom and Indigenous sovereignty in the imperial formation that is the United States of America. With attention to land dispossession, organized abandonment, and racial terror, it traces the histories and futures of abolition on stolen land.
    Hosted by UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Co-sponsored by Black Feminism Initiative, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, and the Promise Institute for Human Rights
  • Artist Talk with Steven Paul Judd
    Thursday, October 8, 2020, 4 PM, Zoom
    Join UCLA's AISA and AISC for an afternoon artist presentation from Steven Paul Judd (Choctaw/Kiowa) an award-winning contemporary visual artist and filmmaker. Steven will share how his visual art from different mediums infusing pop culture references with a native satire message. Guarantee laughs!
    Hosted by UCLA American Indian Studies Center and American Indian Student Association
  • UCLA American Indian Welcome
    Friday, October 2, 2020, 11 AM–12 PM, Zoom
    The UCLA American Indian Welcome event is a virtual opportunity for American Indian/Native American, Pacific Islander and Indigenous students to identify campus resources and build community. The goals of the event are to welcome Native students to the University and to empower them as they carry out their scholarship at the university.
    Hosted by UCLA American Indian Studies Center and American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
  • Poetry to Native California Day
    Friday, September 25, 2020, 3 PM, Zoom
    California Native American Day is celebrated each year on the fourth Friday of September. This state holiday serves not only to recognize tribal people but also to learn about California tribal cultures, histories, and heritage. For the first time, UCLA's American Indian Studies Center will commemorate California Native American Day by hosting a Zoom poetry event featuring local tribal poets: Emily Clarke from the Cahuilla Tribe, and Kelly Caballero and Megan Dorame from the Tongva tribe. Each poet will share knowledge of their language, culture, and traditional life of contemporary California Native women. They will discuss issues facing their communities, as well as the perseverance of their cultures.
    Hosted by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Artist Talk with Mercedes Dorame and River Garza
    Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 3 PM, Zoom
    An afternoon discussion with two Tongva artists: MERCEDES DORAME is a Tongva artist who uses her cultural history to engage problematics of (in)visibility and ideas of cultural construction. RIVER TIKWI GARZA is also a Los Angeles Tongva artist and a member of the Ti'at Society. Garza's work draws on traditional Indigenous aesthetics, Southern California Indigenous maritime culture, graffiti, Xicanx culture, and the Los Angeles urban experience.
    Hosted by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Diverse Perspectives on Water: Workshop by Dr. Karletta Chief
    Friday, August 28, 2020, 12:30 PM, Zoom
    Virtual workshop with Dr. Karletta Chief (Diné, Assistant Professor University of Arizona) on engaged research methodologies with Indigenous/tribal communities. The workshop is part of an NSF grant on Diverse Perspectives on Water, which has as part of its rationale the dialogic bridging of STEM fields and social sciences, and the training of graduate students in methodologies across these fields.
    Hosted by UCLA American Indian Studies Center and Center for Learning
  • Sanctuary & Solidarity: Resisting the U.S. War on Refugees and Migrants
    Friday, August 28, 2020, 12 PM, Zoom
    This convening brings together critical legal scholars, immigration attorneys, Indigenous leaders, and anti-deportation activists to offer analysis of the crisis imposed on refugees at the U.S. Mexico border and the human rights violations at ICE detention facilities. Centering Indigenous and migrant-led mobilizations against U.S. border imperialism on stolen land, it foregrounds pro bono assistance, accompaniment, shelter provision, and detention resistance in solidarity with asylum seekers as sanctuary practices that prefigure decolonial and abolitionist possibilities.
    Hosted by UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration, the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Hastings, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Memory: A Storytelling Event
    Sunday, August 23, 2020, 4 PM, Zoom
    "Memory" is the first event in our 2020-2021 "Transformation" storytelling series. The series features community organizers, advocates, healers, survivors, theorists, and artists. Each event in the Transformation series is intended to speak to our collective desire for deep social change, and to support us in finding the energy, strength, connection, and knowledge that we need in order to repair our world, and to heal ourselves and our communities. Stories by Miztlayolxochitl Aguilera, Julian Aguon, George Blake, Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky, Dana Marie Ingraham, and Avesha Michael.
    Hosted by Repair; Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Predatory Policing
    Tuesday, August 11, 2020, 11:30 AM, Zoom
    The phenomenon of sexual assaults committed by U.S. police remains an under-recognized aspect of police violence. People in the sex industries are especially vulnerable to sexual abuse by law enforcement. Join us for a virtual panel discussion about racism, sexism, youth exploitation & sexual violence committed by police officers against people in systems of prostitution
    Hosted by Repair; Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Embracing Creative Sovereignty - Artist Talk with Gerald Clarke
    Thursday, July 23, 2020, 3 PM, Zoom
    Join the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance for an afternoon talk with Gerald Clarke, a Cahuilla artist, activist, and scholar. Clarke will describe his creative process of integrating the history and culture of the Cahuilla Indians into artistic expression. The Artist Talk will show how Clarke's sculptures, installations, and conceptual art draw on his cultural knowledge to express ideas such as tribal sovereignty.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
  • A Discussion with Weshoyot Alvitre, Tongva Artist
    Friday, May 29, 2020, 10 AM, Zoom
    Join the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center Library for a thoughtful discussion with Weshoyot Alvitre about her interesting and intentional process as an artist, archive enthusiast, researcher, and family genealogist. Weshoyot will discuss her work and activist approach by giving voice to subject matter and Native historical figures often ignored. The talk will consist of an overview of the behind-the-scenes thought process and research that is done for projects representing Native Nations in historical context and in self determined storytelling roles. Weshoyot will focus in particular on a recent graphic novel project about the Tongva woman and hero, Toypurina.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center Library
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • 3rd Annual Nahuatl Conference at UCLA
    Thursday, May 28, 2020, 10 AM - 3 PM, Zoom
    This webinar features new research on Mesoamerica by 3 teachers and 4 advanced students of the Nahuatl language. Nahuatl is the language spoken by the Mexica or Aztecs, and it is still spoken today by about a million people in Mexico. Presentations will be in Nahuatl, Spanish and English or a combination of the 3 languages.
    Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, UCLA International Institute, Department of History, Stanford Latin American Center; University of Utah Latin American Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; IDIEZ; Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles: Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores
  • Pandemia and Indigenous Communities: The Meaning of COVID-19 for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Abya Yala
    Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 12:10-1:30PM, Zoom
    An urgent forum hosted by the Promise Institute for Human Rights
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • [Job Talk] 'Indian Girls Prefer Park to Housework': Criminalization, Deviance, Runaways, and 20th-Century U.S. Indian Policy
    Monday, February 24, 2020, 1:15 pm, 1261 Bunche Hall
    Job Talk for Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies at UCLA.
  • [Job Talk] `Anaangere `Ekwaa Woon: Indigenous Geographies of the Santa Ana River
    Friday, February 21, 2020, 1:15 pm, 1261 Bunche Hall
    Job Talk for Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies at UCLA.
  • [Job Talk] The Blood Line: Race, Boundary Making, and Citizenship Among Native Nations
    Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 3 pm, 279 Haines Hall
    Job Talk for Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies at UCLA.
  • Díi Hlanggwáay tla k_íiya 'la áaygaagang: Fostering Inclusive Geoscience Research & Education Practices
    Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 12 pm, 2125 Rolfe
    Intersections of AIS & STEM presents "Fostering Inclusive Geoscience Research & Education Practices," a talk by Dr. Wendy Smythe, who has worked over the last 12 years to couple Traditional Knowledge (TK) with Geoscience Research and Education to increase the number of Native students in STEM and computer science by developing a culturally focused science curriculum that integrates indigenous language, culture and protocol. In this talk, she will discuss how integrating TK into STEM allows for researchers to better observe ecosystems from a holistic view, and how TK can help to empower future generations of Native scholars.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies IDP. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science.
  • Theft is Property! Discussion and Critical Theory
    Friday, February 14, 2020, 4 pm, 4357 Bunche Hall
    Presented by Robert Nichols (University of Minnesota) with discussant Nicholas Muench (Political Science Graduate Student)
    Hosted by the UCLA Political Theory Workshop; Co-sponsored by the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, and UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
  • [Job Talk] Roadmaps of Inequality: Treaties, Legal Contracts, and the Production of State Violence
    Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 3 pm, 279 Haines Hall
    Job Talk for Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies at UCLA.
  • The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale from the American Heartland — a book talk by Walter Echo-Hawk
    Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 1:30 pm, YRL Presentation Room
    Walter Echo-Hawk's The Sea of Grass traces ten generations of his Pawnee Indian family in the Central Plains of North America. All families have ancient roots with powerful stories to tell. Echo-Hawk's family survived the challenges of colonialism as settlers engulfed their homeland during the rise and growth of our democracy. Echo-Hawk will explain why he wrote this book, how he gathered family history, and how he wrote this historical novel. Afterward, he will give selective readings. His talk will captivate scholars in contemporary Native American literature, indigenous culture, American Indian history, and creative writing—as well as students interested in researching family history and telling their ancestors' stories. Books will be available for sale, and can be autographed by the author.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA School of Law. The event venue is made possible by the UCLA Library.
  • Genomics in the Age of Indigenous Data Sovereignty
    Friday, January 31, 2020, 5 pm, 352 Haines Hall
    Join us for film screening, research presentation, and Q&A with co-screenwriter and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Stephen Acabado. The Old Kiyyangan Story is an anthropological film based on oral histories and archaeological excavations at the Old Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao, Philippines.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Genomics in the Age of Indigenous Data Sovereignty
    Monday, January 27, 2020, 4 pm, 6275 Bunche Hall
    Intersections of AIS & STEM presents "Genomics in the Age of Indigenous Data Sovereignty," a talk by Dr. Nanibaa' Garrison (Diné), who is the recipient of an NIH K01 career development award to explore perspectives of tribal leaders, physicians, scientists, and policy makers on genetic research with tribes. In this talk, she will share the results of the research, as well as discuss more recent work that examines policies pertaining to data ownership and governance, especially as it pertains to Indigenous peoples in the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Film Screening: The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
    Thursday, January 16, 2020, 7:30 pm, James Bridges Theater
    Join us for the LA Premiere of Shelley Niro's latest feature film, The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Shelley Niro herself.
    Co-hosted by Bruin Film Society, Melnitz Movies, UCLA American Indian Studies Center; co-sponsored by UCLA Department of Gender Studies, UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching, UCLA Canadian Studies Program, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Institute of American Cultures, UCLA World Arts and Culture/Dance, UCLA College Social Sciences Division and UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program.
  • Indigenous Los Angeles—The Power of Online Exhibitions
    Wednesday, January 15, 2020, 6 pm, Fowler Museum
    Fowler Curator of Archaeology Wendy Giddens Teeter will discuss the importance of the collaborative web-based project Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and her experiences working with the Tongva and indigenous communities to forefront the multiple historical layers of Los Angeles.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Empire's Tracks: Dr. Karuka
    Monday, January 13, 2020, 3 pm – 4:30 pm, YRL Main Conference Room
    In this talk, Dr. Manu Karuka will give an overview of his new book, Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019).
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center

2019
  • 2nd Annual Hollywood Pow Wow
    Sunday, November 24, 2019, 10 AM–4 PM, TCL Chinese Theater
    The LA SKINS FEST will hold its second Hollywood Pow Wow in front of the iconic TCL Chinese Theater. The Pow Wow takes place Saturday, November 24th, 2019 starting at 9am. The event will feature traditional singing, dancing and youth performances from numerous tribes around the country.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • 2019 IAC Fall Forum
    Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 3 PM–5 PM, UCLA James West Alumni Center
    Join us in honoring the 2019-2020 IAC visiting scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees! Reception, followed by conversations featuring IAC scholars. Learn about the research and scholarship that the IAC and the four ethnic studies research centers are supporting.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Indigenous Uprisings: Sacred Spaces and Sovereign Struggles
    Monday, November 18, 2019, 12 PM–1:45 PM, Room 1357, UCLA School of Law
    As part of our Native American Heritage Month celebrations, please join the Native American Law Students Association along with the Asian/Pacific Islander Law Students Association for a diverse panel featuring Dr. Trisha Kehaulani Watson, from Honua Consulting in Hawaii to discuss the ongoing violations against Native Hawaiian sovereignty and those that are currently taking place at Mauna Kea. We will also be featuring A-dae Briones of the First Nations Development Institute and Angela Mooney D'Arcy of the Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples to offer a comparative lens on Native American sovereignty issues in the U.S. - specifically those that have occurred at Standing Rock and with Native California tribes and communities. We hope to see you there!
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • UCLA Law Students for Immigrant Justice: Book Talk with Professor Shannon Speed
    November 4, 2019, 12:15–1:15 PM, UCLA School of Law, Room 1447
    The Law Students for Immigrant Justice (student group) will be hosting a community conversation with Professor Shannon Speed surrounding her new book, Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State. In her recently published book, Professor Speed delves into the circumstances that make indigenous women who migrate especially vulnerable to neoliberal economic and political practices in Latin America and the US, including policing, detention, and human trafficking. Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Director of the American Indian Studies Center, and Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at UCLA, Professor Speed has spent the last two decades in Mexico researching indigenous politics, legal anthropology, human rights, migration, and activist research.
    Co-sponsored by: LSIJ, NALSA, WOCC, CJS, the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, The Critical Race Studies Program, the International and Comparative Law Program, and the Promise Institute, UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Indigenous Aesthetics and The Beadworkers: Stories
    October 24, 2019, 4–6 PM, UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda
    In this book talk, author Beth Piatote reflects on the influence of Nez Perce/Ni:mi:pu: language, literature, and aesthetics in the creation of her new mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories, released on October 22 by Counterpoint Press.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Lighting a Path Forward: UC Land Grants, Public Memory, and Tovaangar
    October 15–16, 2019, James West Alumni Center and Luskin Conference Center
    Join UCLA's American Indian Studies Center for an interdisciplinary public symposium on October 15th about the past, present, and future of the University of California's relationship with tribes. On the 15th, three panels will be held, discussing UCLA's centennial anniversary with respect to California Indians, the current state of relationships and projects between the UCs and tribal communities and institutions, and future innovative practices working with tribal communities. On October 16th, three workshops will be conducted whose goal is to create policy papers for developing community-engaged classrooms, creating better practices for American Indian and Indigenous retention and recruitment, and generating practices that ensure repatriation and maintenance of cultural heritage. This symposium is part of a series of 50th-anniversary events sponsored by the AISC.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, American Indian Alumni of UCLA, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Center for Community Learning, UCLA Department of Anthropology, UCLA Institute of American Cultures, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and Tribal Learning Community & Education Exchange.
  • 2019 UCLA Indigenous Peoples' Day
    October 14, 2019, 12 – 2 pm, Bruin Bear in the Bruin Plaza
    This event brings awareness to UCLA that Indigenous Peoples' Day is the second Monday in October. Fry bread will be available and provided by the Wildhorse Cafe, while supplies last.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration in LA City Hall
    October 13, 2019
    4 – 9 pm, LA City Hall and Grand Park
    A community celebration will be held to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day! The theme this year will focus on the Past, Present, and Future, with a call to action for our state and federal lawmakers to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day.
  • Collecting and Caring for Native Archives and Libraries
    October 11, 2019, 12 – 1pm, UCLA Powell Library
    A talk with Dr. Loriene Roy, (Anishinabe), Professor, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin and Whina Te Whiu (Te Rarawa), Curator, Te Ahu Museum, and Vision Holder for Raiatea Tribal Museum and Resource Centre, Aotearoa. They will speak about some of the responsibilities, protocols, and necessary community serving roles of collecting for Native subject libraries and Native archives and museums. Also discussed will be the concept of integrating in this process a tribal worldview and cultural values first, and professional museum and library practices second, and how this might inform subject collecting and archival collecting at institutions broadly.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • 2019 UCLA American Indian Welcome
    October 7, 2019, 4 – 6 pm, Rolfe Hall Courtyard
    Students, alumni, community members, faculty, and staff are invited to the 2017 welcome celebration for the American Indian community at UCLA
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
  • UCLA: Our Stories, Our Impact (Traveling Exhibit)
    October 3-17, 2019, Kereckoff Art Gallery
    As part of UCLA’s yearlong 100th birthday celebration, UCLA: Our Stories, Our Impact will launch on October 3! Please join us as we celebrate the opening of UCLA: Our Stories, Our Impact, which is a traveling multimedia exhibit that will highlight the role of UCLA and its alumni in advancing equity and equality in America. This exhibit will stay at the Kerckhoff Art Gallery from October 3 to 17, 2019.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Ethnic & Indigenous Studies 2019 Welcome
    October 1, 2019, 4 – 6 pm, Rolfe Hall Courtyard
    Explore Ethnic and Indigenous Studies at UCLA. This event gathers ethnic and indigenous studies academic units, organized research units, affiliated identity student groups, and affiliated units together to welcome students to campus.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Graduate Student Orientation Resource Fair
    September 20, 2019, 12 – 4 pm, UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom
    Connect with 100+ graduate student organizations and campus resources.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • American Indian Graduation Celebration
    June 14, 2019, 4 am–7 pm, UCLA Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Room
    Honoring the graduating Class of 2019
    Hosted by the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program; Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program Symposium
    May 30, 2019, 10 am–3 pm, UCLA Rolfe Hall 2125
    Join us to celebrate our graduating American Indian Studies students in a one-day symposium! Presentations include graduate and undergraduate research.
    Hosted by the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program; Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Reaching for Liberation: A Night of Celebration with Black Panthers
    May 29, 2019, 6 pm–9 pm, UCLA De Neve Plaza Room An End of the Year Event featuring Black Panther Panelists: Hank Jones, Trudy Goodwin, Gene Washington, Emory Doulgas, with Mama Julez and moderated by Melina Adbullah.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Brokering the Sacred: A Panel on the Ethics of Collecting Native Art
    May 15, 2019, 5–7 pm, UCLA Fowler Museum
    The repatriation of Native arts over the last 30 years has demonstrated the sustainability of Indigenous knowledge and survivance strategies. How might this moment speak to the viability of the arts as cultural transmitters rather than solely objects of capital worth? The ethics of collecting Native arts are debated by a panel of experts. Hosted by UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Fowler Museum.
  • Book Talk: As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice From Colonization to Standing Rock
    May 14, 2019, 4–6 pm, Bunche Hall 6275
    AIA invites you to join a community gathering at UCLA's campus this Saturday at the James West Alumni Center. All are welcome to attend this event, as many of the head staff invited to the UCLA Powwow will be in attendance and participating. We hope to take Saturday to enjoy the strength in our community, both on and off campus, and share some laughs, food, and offer our support to each other and the American Indian Student Association (AISA) students. This event will include dance, drums & exhibitions, a resource fair, community vendors, and catered food.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • American Indian Community Gathering
    May 4, 2019, 11 am–7 pm, UCLA James West Alumni Center
    AIA invites you to join a community gathering at UCLA's campus this Saturday at the James West Alumni Center. All are welcome to attend this event, as many of the head staff invited to the UCLA Powwow will be in attendance and participating. We hope to take Saturday to enjoy the strength in our community, both on and off campus, and share some laughs, food, and offer our support to each other and the American Indian Student Association (AISA) students. This event will include dance, drums & exhibitions, a resource fair, community vendors, and catered food.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Carrying Our Ancestors Home
    May 1, 2019, 5:30–7 pm, Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum
    Join the UCLA American Indian Studies Center for this special event as we launch the new digital project "Carrying our Ancestors Home" and talk through the land acknowledgement and its importance in engaging a new path forward with tribal communities. Discussions will include UCLA as a land grant institution, the state of NAGPRA and a Q&A with Mishuana Goeman (Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs), Shannon Speed (Director of the American Studies Center), and Wendy Teeter (Curator of Archaeology at the Fowler Museum).
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Contested Indigenous Auctions in Paris: Native American Survivance vs. Latin American Nationalism
    April 10, 2019, 12–1 pm, 10383 Bunche Hall
    Andrew Meyer (Visiting Research Associate at the UCLA Latin American Institute and a Ph.D. Student at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) will make a comparison between Native American tribes and Latin American nations who have both requested repatriation of Indigenous objects being auctioned in Paris, France.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA Latin American Institute, Institut des Amériques, American Indian Studies Center.
  • Indigenous Self-Determination in Defense of the Earth
    March 20, 2019, 12:10–1:30 pm, UCLA Law School, Room 1357
    Join us for an illuminating conversation on Indigenous environmental activism in Central America and Los Angeles. Hosted by the Environmental Law Society and NALSA. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Poetic Resistance: An Evening with Remi Kanazi
    February 27, 2019 6 pm, Glorya Kaufman Hall 200
    The globally recognized poet, organizer, and performer will share his distinct spokenword presentation, followed by a conversation with Dr. David Shorter, Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State
    February 22, 2019, All day, UCLA Luskin Conference Center
    Thinking Gender 2019 will focus on gendered regimes of incarceration, and feminist, queer, abolitionist, and intersectional interventions.
    Hosted by the Center for the Study of Women. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Bittersewet Dreams
    February 20, 6-8 pm, Royce Hall 314
    This event showcases a performance by Petrona de la Cruz Cruz, relates the story of a Mayan girl from the Chiapas highlands who overcomes obstacles and traumas to find personal peace and creative fulfullment.
    Hosted by the UCLA Latin American Institute. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Dawnland Film Screening and Panel Discussion
    February 20, 5 PM, Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum
    Join us for a special screening of Dawnland followed by a panel discussion with Sandy White Hawk from the Truth and Reconciliation committee, Chris Newell, senior advisor and cultural educator of Pasamaquoddy issues, and Brighid Pulskamp, Indian Children Welfare Act (ICWA) Community Tribal Leader.


    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History, Native American Law Student Association, and UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
  • The Tyranny of Ethnonyms in Multiethnic Worlds
    Friday, February 15, 2019, 4 pm - 6 pm, UCLA Fowler Museum A222
  • BFS WIE: Birds of Passage
    Saturday, February 9, 2019, 8 pm, UCLA James Bridges Theater
    This event featured a free screening of Birds of Passage as part of the Bruin Film Society: Women in Entertainment series of events that showcase and celebrate women in the entertainment industry.
    Hosted by the UCLA Bruin Film Society. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the Center for Southern Cone Studies.
  • Institute of American Cultures Film Festival
    Friday, February 1, 2019, 11:30 am–10 pm, UCLA James West Alumni Center
    Join us in celebarting 50 years of ethnic studies at UCLA with a full day of film screenings directed and/or produced by UCLA alumni.
    Hosted by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, and Chicano Studies Research Center.

2018
  • Aboriginal Higher Education in Australia: The Challenge of Recruitment Versus Retention
    Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 1–3 pm, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
    Join us in conversation with Dr. Stephanie Gilbert about the challenges facing educators and managers in Indigenous education, using The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle as a model. How to support Indigenous students to enter, remain, and succeed at University whilst responding to the pressure to increase the recruitment of students will be a major focus of our discussion, as well as the particular challenge facing Indigenous faculty and professional staff to recruit at the same time as building a culturally safe educational environment. Supporting the ongoing development of Indigenous knowledge and the discipline of Indigenous studies lends an added complexity to the debate. Dr. Stephanie Gilbert will address the topic from an Indigenous Australian perspective, having now served in Aboriginal education for over 25 years.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Event venue possible with support of UCLA Library.
  • Salmon Woman and Her Children
    Thursday, November 29, 2018, 12:15–1:45 pm, 352 Haines Hall
    This talk is about a Lhaq'temish cosmological story concerning self-sacrifice, generosity, love, and gratitude enjoining us to care for salmon-human relations. It is also about the origins of the First Salmon Ceremony of the Salmon peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Influenced by indigenous jurisprudence, Duskin turns to cosmological stories of love between humans and the nonhumans who sustain them. In 1992, Jewell James wrote down a version about the marriage of Salmon Woman to Raven, an ancestral chief. Salmon Woman generously gives her children, salmon, for Raven and his people to eat. She sacrifices her children because she is aroused to admiration and, eventually, love by Raven's unselfish concern for others. He struggles to help both his people and strangers even as he is dying. The generosity of the salmon sustained Raven and Salmon Woman's human peoples for many generations. Further, the performative generosity of the salmon is the core of regional indigenous survivance, their 20th century fight for fishing rights and self-governance, and current assertions of indigenous jurisprudence.
    Hosted by Culture, Power, Social Change (CPSC). Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Living As Indigenous Inside the Dysmorphic Body
    Monday, November 26, 2018, 3–5 pm, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
    A background in social work has added a distinctive lens to Dr. Stephanie Gilbert's academic research, providing a nuanced insight to the important cultural study of gendered Indigenous child removals. This is a topic that still fuels her research to this day. Dr. Gilbert's current focus is more particularly on a body dysmorphia she argues is created by these removal experiences. In her current Fulbright research she's interested in testing out whether this notion is experienced by other Indigenous peoples around the globe. In this presentation she will present some of the material illuminating the body dysmorphia concept in the Stolen Generations in Australia and some of her investigations of this concept into the epigenetic realm.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Event venue possible with support of UCLA Library.
  • The Paradox of Indigeneity in the Philippine Context
    Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 4–6 pm, East Rotunda, Powell Library
    Assistant Professor Oona Paredes discuss some of the challenges of securing and maintaining “Indigenous” status in the face of Filipino prejudices that simultaneously fetishize and marginalize indigenous minorities.
    Hosted by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Anti-Racist Horizons: Zapatista Kuxlejal Politics and Indigenous Autonomy
    Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 4–6 pm, East Rotunda, Powell Library
    Associate Professor Mariana Mora will present on her book, Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities. with guest commentators Josh Meyer and Director Shannon Speed.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Latin American Institute
  • Imagination: A Storytelling Event
    Monday, October 22, 2018, 6:30–8:30 pm, Mercado La Paloma
    Imagination is the third event in the Transformation storytelling series. The series features community organizers, advocates, healers, survivors, theorists, and artists, in the role of “storyteller”.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA AMerican Indian Studies Center, the UCLA Disability Studies Program, Improving Dreams, Equity, Access, and Success (IDEAS) at UCLA
  • IAC Fall Forum
    October 18, 3-5 PM, James West Alumni Center
    Honoring the Visiting Scholars and Researchers, and Research Grant Awardees of 2018–19.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference 2018
    October 11-13, Oaxaca, Mexico
    The annual American Society for Ethnohistory conference was hosted in Oaxaca, Mexico.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration & Short Native Films Screening
    Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 4:30 PM–6:30 PM, Bruin Plaza & 6:30 PM, Kaplan Hall A51
    The elimination of Columbus Day and the establishment of Indigenous Peoples Day in its place on the second Monday of October represents a huge victory for indigenous people and for everyone in Los Angeles. Please join us for dancing, drumming, and refreshments as we gather to honor this historic victory.A series of Native short films will be screened afterwards at Kaplan Hall A51.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Kuruvungna Springs Clean Up
    Saturday, October 6, 2018, 9 AM–2:00 PM, 1439 S. Barrington Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90025
    Please join us at Kuruvungna Springs to help clean up the area around the springs in preparation for their annual "Life Before Columbus" event. Lunch will be provided to volunteers.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • UCLA Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Fall 2018 Welcome
    Monday, October 1, 2018, 4:00–6 PM, James West Alumni Center
    This event gathers ethnic and indigenous studies academic units, organized research units, affiliated identity student groups, and affiliated units together to welcome students to campus.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • UCLA American Indian Welcome
    Monday, September 24, 2018, 4:30–7 PM, James West Alumni Center
    Students, alumni, community members, faculty, and staff are invited to the 2017 welcome celebration for the American Indian community at UCLA.
    Hosted and sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Student Association, UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, and UCLA Alumni Affairs
  • 8th Annual L.A. Skins Music Fest
    Saturday, August 4, 4 - 8 PM, Bandshell Sycamore Grove Park, 4702 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042
    Annual music fest featuring Native music
    Co-sponsor by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • American Indian Graduation Celebration
    Friday, June 15, 2018, 4 – 7 PM, Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Room
    End of the year celebration for the graduates (graduate, undergraduate, and professional) of the American Indian Studies at UCLA.
    Host: UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
    Co-sponsor by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • After the Genocide: Indigenous Struggles for Justice and the Impact of Court Trials in Guatemala
    Thursday, May 10, 2018, 1:30 - 3:45 pm, roundtable panel & reception, Rolfe 1301; 4-7 pm, film screening of 500 Years and Q&A, Haines 39
    Please join us on the fifth anniversary of Ríos Montt's genocide conviction to discuss these and other related questions with Dr. Marta Elena Casaus Arzú (Distinguished Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Dr. Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj (outgoing Mellon Visiting Professor at Duke University). Dr. Casaus has published extensively on racism and discrimination against the Mayan peoples of Guatemala, while Dr. Velásquez Nimatuj has been at the forefront of struggles for the respect of indigenous cultures for decades. As well-known experts in the Guatemalan genocide, both our guest speakers participated as expert witnesses in the genocide trial against Efraín Ríos Montt (2013 and 2018) as well as in the “Sepur Zarco” trial for sexual violence and sexual slavery committed against Mayan women (2016).
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Latin American Institute, and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
  • Skawennati and Jack Gray: I LAND 2018
    Thursday, May 10, 3 PM, GSE&IS Bldg, Room 111 & 4:30 PM, Kaufman Hall Room 200
    lease join us Thursday, May 10 at 3pm in Room 111 GSE&IS Building for a talk by Skawennati, Mohawk multimedia artist, Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) and Partnership Coordinator of The Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her talk is titled My Life as an Avatar: Activation Remix. The colloquium will be followed by a performance activation and talk by Maori contemporary dance artist Jack Gray, organized by the Worlds Arts and Culture/Dance Department. This UCLA Regents' Lecture will take place at WAC, Gloria Kaufman Hall, Room 200 at 4:30pm.
    Co-sponsor by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • The 33rd Annual UCLA Pow Wow
    Saturday-Sunday, May 5-6, 2018, all day, UCLA North Athletic Field
    The 33rd annual pow wow, organized and presented by the UCLA American Indian Student Association, featuring traditional Native American singing and dancing, the Miss UCLA Pow Wow Pageant.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Student Association
    Co-Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Nahuatl Conference
    Friday, May 4, 2018, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Charles E. Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall
    This conference is brought to you by an alliance of the Latin American Centers at UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of Utah to promote the study of Nahuatl, with the participation of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnólogica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ). Thirteen international scholars, including three native-language speakers of Nahuatl from Veracruz, will present their research on Nahuatl language and culture.
    Sponsors: Latin American Institute, Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA International Institute, Spanish and Portuguese, Department of History, Cesar E. Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center, University of Utah Latin American Center, Stanford University Latin American Center, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Nahuatl Club
  • Reflections on Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 4:00 PM, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
    Presented by Jaskiran Dhillon, Assistant professor of global studies and anthropology at The New School in New York City. This talk offers a unique opportunity to think through the arguments of Jaskiran Dhillon's new book Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (University of Toronto Press, 2017). Prairie Rising provides a series of critical reflections about the changing face of settler colonialism through an ethnographic investigation of Indigenous-state relations, with a careful and deliberate focus on the lives of Indigenous youth, in the city of Saskatoon, Canada. The book uncovers how various groups including state agents, youth workers, and community organizations utilize participatory politics in order to intervene in the lives of Indigenous youth living under conditions of colonial occupation and marginality. In doing so, Prairie Rising sheds light on the changing forms of settler governance and the interlocking systems of education, child welfare, and criminal justice that sustain it. Moreover, Dhillon's analysis exposes how the push for inclusionary governance ultimately reinstates colonial settler authority and raises startling questions about the federal government's commitment to justice and political empowerment for Indigenous Nations, particularly within the context of the everyday realities facing Indigenous youth. This discussion will also offer a space to deliberate critical questions about the production and circulation of knowledge with respect to Indigenous youth, and provide insights on the implications of this work for the fields of youth studies, Indigenous studies, anthropology, and social work as well as implications for direct action and political organizing.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program.
  • Book Talk: UC Davis historian Andrés Reséndez's The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
    Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 4:00 PM, Bunche 6725
    Andrés Reséndez is the author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, winner of the 2017 Bancroft Prize. It was also a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and 2nd longlisted for the 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Reséndez grew up in Mexico City, where he received his BA in International Relations. He briefly went into politics and served as a consultant for historical soap operas (telenovelas). He received his Ph.D. in History at the University of Chicago and has taught at Yale, the University of Helsinki, and the University of California, Davis where he is a history professor and departmental vice chair. His other books include A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Basic Books, 2007), and Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
    Hosted by the UCLA Department of History. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States and Somewhere Else
    Thursday, April 12, 2018, 3 PM, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
    Maria Josefina Saldaña Portillo is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and Visiting Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press, 2003). Indian Given was awarded the Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies (NACCS) in 2017. Professor Saldaña's presentation addresses the imbrication of NAFTA, narcos, and the legacy of the indio bárbaro.
    Sponsored by the Department of Gender Studies.
    Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Women, American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Department of English, The Latin American Institute, and The Chicano Research Center
  • From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenous Food Sovereignty & Community Gardens
    Friday, April 6, 2018, 4–6 PM, UCLA La Kretz Garden Pavilion
    Join Dr. Elizabeth Hoover as she discusses her book project "From 'Garden Warriors' to 'Good Seeds;' Indigenizing the Local Food Movement". This work explores Native American farming and gardening projects around the country: the successes and challenges faced by these organizations, the ways in which participants define and envision concepts like food sovereignty, and the importance of heritage seeds. Dr. Hoover is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University.
    Sponsored by: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative Food Studies Program, and UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden
  • Uncolonized — Film Screening and Talk
    Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 4–6 PM, Kaufman Hall Room 200
    Uncolonized is a short documentary film about a native family who decided never to enroll their two daughters into the public school system, choosing instead to homeschool them from birth. Chris is Potawatomi and Chasity is Navajo. Their daughters Nathaney and Mimicah, ages 11 and 7 at the time of filming, carry both of their parents' lineages in their blood, but also in their way of being.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, and the UCLA World Arts and Culture/Dance.
  • Indexology, Human Ranking, and Pseudo-Science: A Critical Perspective from the Global South
    Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 12–2 PM, Rolfe 2125
    Guest lecture featuring Professor Steve Ratuva, Fulbright Senior Scholar. This lecture will explore the latent consequences of neoliberalism in the forms of compartmentalization, stratification, and commodification of knowledge.
  • Meet-and-Greet with Dr. Stephanie Gilbert
    Monday, March 5, 2018, 12:30 PM, 3232 Campbell Hall
    A special meet-and-greet with Dr. Stephanie Gilbert who joined UCLA on a PostDoctoral Fulbright Scholarship to research further her work in body, identity and inheritable trauma.
  • Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu at UCLA
    Thursday, February 22, 2018
    Public lecture, 11-12:15 PM, Haines Hall A18
    Community talk, "Moments and Epiphanies in the Life of a Māhū," 2-3:30 PM, UCLA Powell Library East Rotunda
    Hosted by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA OID, Institute of American Cultures, American Indian Studies Center, and Asian American Studies Center.
  • A Special Performance by Mayan Hip Hop Artist Tzutu Bak'tum
    Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 12-1 PM, Dickson Court - North
    Maya hip hop artist Tzutu Bak'tum visited UCLA to share his original music from Guatemala.
  • Welcome Event for Dr. Nancy Marie Mithlo
    Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 3-5 PM, Charles E. Young Research Library
    IAC 2017-18 Visiting Researcher, Nancy Marie Mithlo, presented on her work on the 2017 Venice Biennale exhibit Wah shka, featuring the artists Marcella Ernest, Shan Goshorn and Keli Mashburn.
  • Oral History/Ethnography in Tribal Communities
    Tuesday, January 9, 2018, 2 – 4 PM, Rolfe Hall, Room 2125
    In this panel, UCLA Professors Jessica Cattelino, Paul Kroskrity, Greg Schachner, and Shannon Speed will discuss their work as oral historians and as ethnographers. The panel will cover best practices for conducting interviews and working with tribal communities.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies IDP

2017
  • Indigenous Autonomy and National Politics in Mexico
    Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 12 PM, Student Activities Center, B-Level, Conference Room 3
    Ángel Kú and Valiana Aguilar, two compañeras from the Center for Encounters and Intercultural Dialogues and the Universidad de la Tierra, Oaxaca will share information about Indigenous autonomy and community self-determination across Mexico but especially in Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatán. They will also provide important updates about the current initiative of the El Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI) and the Zapatistas, especially their effort to support the CNI's Concejo Indígena de Gobierno's spokesperson and her effort to enter the national election as an official candidate. Additionally, they will share information about the current autonomous efforts to rebuild communities impacted by the hurricane and earthquake in Oaxaca's Isthmus.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Multiple InJustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America — An Intergenerational Dialogue
    Thursday, November 16, 2017, 4 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
    Dr. R. Aída Hernández Castillo presents her book, "Multiple InJustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America," along with a conversation with Dr. Shannon Speed and Brenda Nicolas.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Sundance Institute and UCLA American Indian Studies Center Present: Out of State (2017)
    Saturday, November 11, 2017 5:30 PM, The Autry in Griffith Park
    Marking the directorial debut of filmmaker Ciara Lacy (Native Hawaiian), this documentary tells the story of an incredible journey. Shipped thousands of miles away from the tropical islands of Hawai'i to a private prison in the Arizona desert, two Native Hawaiians discover their Indigenous traditions from a fellow inmate serving a life sentence. Afterward, as they struggle with the hurdles of life as formerly incarcerated men, they ask whether you can really go home again. Q&A with Lacy and light reception to follow.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and Sundance Institute
  • INDIVISIBLE and the Resistance
    Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 3:30 PM, Room 2355, Public Affairs
    A special event featuring speakers Billy Fleming and Zacharie Boisvert, in conversation with Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, Laure Murat, and Abel Valenzuela Jr., and moderated by Ananya Roy. INDIVISIBLE seeks to cultivate a progressive grassroots network of local groups organized across the United States to build political power, to resist the destructive political agendas of the Trump administration, to challenge structures of white supremacy, and to advocate and realize bold policies for social justice.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • IAC Fall Forum and Reception
    Thursday, November 2, 2017 4 PM, James West Alumni Center
    Honoring the Visiting Scholars, Post-Doc, and Research Grant Awardees of 2017-18.
    Hosted by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures
    Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, and Chicano Studies Research Center
  • Tongva Language Research and Reclamation
    Thursday, October 26, 2017, 4 PM, Room 2232, Public Affairs Building
    Professor Emeritus Pam Munro, Department of Linguistics, will give a special lecture, with a guest speaker, Virginia Carmelo (Tongva educator).
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
  • City of Inmates-- Book Talk and Siging with Kelly Lytle Hernández
    Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 4 – 6 PM, UCLA Ackerman Student Union - Bruin Viewpoint Room
    City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world’s leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian and Bunche Center Interim Director Kelly Lytle Hernández unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. Hernández documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. Those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. It is a story that is far from over.
  • Promised Land Film Screening and Panel Discussion
    Friday, October 20, 2017, 6 PM, Dodd 147
    A special screening of the documentary, Promised Land, with a panel discussion.
  • "Right Wrongs" Online Exhibition & Reception
    Thursday, October 12, 2017, 4 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
    "Right Wrongs" Online Exhibition with Craig Ritchie, CEO of Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, and followed by a reception co-hosted by the Australian Consulate.
    Hosted by the Australian Consulate and UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Elena de Hoyos Hermanas en la Sombra
    Tuesday, October 10, 2017, 4:30 PM, Lydeen Library, 4302 Rolfe Hall
    Short film screening of Semillas de Guamuchil & Reading and Discussion of Poems and Texts by Rural and Indigenous Mexican Women in Reclusion.
    Hosted by the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese, American Indian Studies Center
  • Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
    Monday, October 9, 2017, 5 PM, The Elizabeth & W. Thomas Courtyard at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
    The elimination of Columbus Day and the establishment of Indigenous Peoples Day in its place on the second Monday of October represents a huge victory for indigenous people and for everyone in Los Angeles. Please join us for a gathering to honor the work of the city representatives and community coalition that made this historic victory possible.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
  • Weaving Generations Together: Evolving creativity in the Maya of Chiapas
    Thursday, October 5, 2017, 4–6:30 PM, UCLA Powell Library, Main and East Rotandas through December 15
    An opening reception for a textile exhibition, "Weaving Generations Together," curated by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA Department of Psychology, and Kathryn Klein, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, American Indian Studies Center, Latin American Institute, Center for Mexican Studies, Center for the Study of Women, Chicano Studies Research Center, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Fiat Lux, Office of Instructional Development
  • UCLA American Indian Welcome
    Thursday, September 28, 2017, 5-7 PM, UCLA Pauley Pavilion Clubhouse
    Students, alumni, community members, faculty, and staff are invited to the 2017 welcome celebration for the American Indian community at UCLA
  • Trump's Violent Reassertion of White Supremacy, the Threat of Genocide, and What Must Be Done, NOW!
    Thursday, September 7, 2017, 7 PM, 1102 Perloff Hall
    THE TRUMP/PENCE regime is consolidating a fascist program, unleashing Nazi stormtroopers, that will mean unimaginable horrors for humanity and, as part that, will bring down a reign of terror, on top of centuries of savage oppression of Black people. Carl Dix, drawing on the new synthesis of communism developed by Bob Avakian, will speak to how this regime was spawned by the system of capitalism/imperialism and why everybody must throw in to drive it out of office NOW, as part of getting ready for revolution!
  • 7th Annual L.A. Skins Music Fest
    Saturday, July 29, 2017, 5:30 PM, Spoke Bicycle Cafe
    The 7th Annual L.A. SKINS MUSIC FEST is a Native American concert series taking place at the SPOKE BICYCLE CAFE on the L.A. River. The music fest features rock, jazz, pop and blues. Los Angeles has the largest urban population of Native Americans in the United States, totaling 150,000, and has a vast talent pool of Indigenous musicians.
  • Teaching the Tongva - A Third Grade Workshop
    Tuesday-Wednesday, July 25-26, 2017, 9 - 3 PM, Kuruvungna Springs Cultural Center and Museum
    This 2-day workshop for 3rd grade teachers, co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, CSU Dominguez Hills History Project, and the UCLA History-Geography Project, will explore Los Angeles' indigenous history and indigenous present. Join us and Tongva educators for an interactive experience that will include content speakers, exploration of curriculum and cooking with native plants.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles, CSU Dominguez Hills History Project, and the UCLA History-Geography Project
  • American Indian Graduation Celebration
    Friday, June 16, 2017, 4 – 7 PM, Covel Grand Horizon
    End of the year celebration for the graduates (graduate, undergraduate, and professional) of the American Indian Studies at UCLA.
    Host: UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, UCLA American Indian Student Association
  • American Indian Studies Research Symposium
    Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 9 - 4 PM, Room 2357, UCLA School of Law
    Join the Interdepartmental program as we celebrate the research of the graduating class of 2017 — Master Theses, Undergraduate Major Capstones and other student research/Internships. Lunch provided by the American Indian Studies Center.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies IDP, Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Policy Forum: The Governance of Indigenous Data
    Thursday-Friday, May 18-19, 2017, UCLA Public Affairs Building, Room 2355
    A one and a half working meeting hosted by Dr. Randall Akee, Assistant Professor of Public Policy.
    Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • The 32nd Annual UCLA Pow Wow
    Saturday-Sunday, May 6-7, 2017, UCLA North Athletic Field
    The 32nd annual pow wow, organized and presented by the UCLA American Indian Student Association, featuring traditional Native American singing and dancing, the Miss UCLA Pow Wow Pageant.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Student Association
    Co-Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • The Aqueduct Between Us
    Monday, April 24, 2017, 4:00 - 6:00 PM, Coral Tree Walk
    The Aqueduct Between Us” is a social justice water symposium that aims to serve two communities by exposing the people of Los Angeles, residents and students alike, to the perspective of Owens Valley tribal communities concerning water and tribal sovereignty. An all-tribal panel from the Owens Valley (Bishop, Big Pine, Lone Pine tribes) will present their history, before and after the LADWP constructed aqueduct, and the resulting injustices. This symposium aims to build a robust coalition between these tribal communities and Angelenos; to help pressure the LADWP to recognize tribal sovereignty.
    Panalists:
    Alan Bacock, Water Coordinator for the Big Pine Paiute Tribe, Big Pine Tribal member
    Kathy Bancroft, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribal member
    Monty Bengochia, Bishop Tribal Council Chairman, Bishop Paiute Tribal Member
    Ray Naylor Hunter, Administrative and Political Consultant, Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribal member
    Harry Williams, Environmental activist, educational guest speaker for White Mountain Research Station, Bishop Paiute Tribal member
    Moderator:
    Angela Mooney D'arcy, Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples, Acjachamen/Juaneno Tribal member
    Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Graduate Student Association, and Tribal Learning Community & Education Exchange
  • Standing with Mother Earth
    Friday, April 21, 2017, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, A18 Haines Hall
    SPEAKERS:
    Dennis Banks, Elder Co-Founder of the AIM
    Robby Romero, Native Rock Recording Artist
    MUSIC BY
    Robby Romero, Native Rock Recording Artist
    Raye Zaragoza, Singer-Songwriter
    HONOR SONG BY: Spirit Lake Singers
  • River Revere: Jimmy Durham's Enigmatic Serpent The Banks of the Ohio
    Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 3:00 - 5:00 PM, Bunche Hall, Room 6275
    Presented by Dr. Chadwick Allen, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. Author of the books Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts and Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies, he is a past President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) and the current Editor of the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures. During the 1992 Columbus Quincentenary, controversial Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham created a serpent-inspired installation titled The Banks of the Ohio, part of the will/power exhibit staged at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.  The body of Durham’s serpent is assembled from green PVC pipes used in modern plumbing, while the serpent’s head is fashioned from mud.  Additional mud is smeared across the white walls of the gallery, creating swirling “tracks” of movement.  Critics have read Durham’s installation as a profane reference to the sacred Serpent Mound located in southwestern Ohio, asserting that Durham’s use of sewage pipes offers a critical commentary on US settler colonialism’s profane soiling of North American landscapes and histories. In this paper, Allen locates Durham’s serpent more firmly in its multiple (sacred and profane) Indigenous and colonial contexts and considers not only the serpent’s PVC body and the gallery’s sullied walls, but also the series of drawings and collages Durham created to accompany the installation. These pieces include schematics of the Wexner Center and excerpts from provocative historical texts, and they were pinned to the gallery’s walls to provide crucial context for interpretation. They help re-place and re-animate Durham’s enigmatic serpent within multiple structures of agency and meaning.
    Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • First Peoples: A Celebration of Native Artists in Southern California
    April 4 - 22, 2017, Open Tuesday- Saturday 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center | Gala Opening Reception- Saturday, April 8, 2017, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
    FIRST PEOPLES is a unique cultural exhibition showcasing the diverse artwork of 31 Southern California artists with indigenous roots North or South of the Border. Described as "interesting and important" by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, an exhibition co-sponsor, FIRST PEOPLES presents myriad answers to the question: What does it mean to be a Native artist? Photographs of Native Americans provocatively dressed as Hollywood icons.
    Contemporary baskets and pottery made traditionally. A poignant video interview with a Native grandmother. Paintings, watercolors, prints and mixed media art that interpret Native life, spirituality and identity.An elaborate buckskin dress made for a TV soap star by the family of fabled Comanche chief Quanah Parker.
    A "domestic installation" that comments on parallels between gang attire and native regalia.This is but a small sampling of the 109 varied artworks on display (many of which are available for purchase). The generational range of participating artists—from university students to tribal elders—is as diverse as their art practices. Personal Artist Statements and detailed descriptive labels contextualize the art and communicate a unified theme: Far from having "vanished," indigenous peoples flourish today and continue to be nourished by their Native cultures.The gala opening reception on Saturday, April 8, from 7 to 10 pm, will feature a blessing by Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians Tribal President Rudy J. Ortega, Jr., performances by Native youth, and light refreshments. The public is invited.
    Organized by Walter L. Meyer, a Los Angeles based independent curator with a special interest in cross-cultural projects, FIRST PEOPLES is being presented by the San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center (SFVACC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
    Co-sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • [Job Talk] Cultural Sovereignty and the Future of Tribal Self-Determination
    Thursday, March 23, 2017, 4 - 6 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
    Presented by Dr. Rebecca Tsosie, Regents' Professor of Law; Special Advisor to the Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, University of Arizona.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • A Conference on Race, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism
    Thursday, March 9, 1:30 - 5:30 PM; Friday, March 10, 9:30 - 5:30 PM, Room 1327, UCLA School of Law
    At a time of heightened awareness of the enduring challenges of race in America, this conference will highlight transnational insights on the historiography of race that have emerged from the study of settler colonialism.
    Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Somos Piedras: Indigeneity, Feminicide, and Migration in Central American Art
    Wednesday, March 8, 3pm - 5pm, Founders' Room, UCLA James West Alumni Center
    Presented by Dr. Kency Cornejo, Assistant Professor, Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art, University of New Mexico.
    To date Central America holds among the highest feminicide rates in the world, exceeding those in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Simultaneously, the repression and murder of indigenous environmental leaders is on the rise. Meanwhile, a wave of migrant Central American women and unaccompanied children continue to head north in search of refuge. This lecture will analyze contemporary art of Central America to discuss the underlying structures that connect Indigenous genocide, gender-based violence, and forced displacement for Central Americans. Through performance, video art, and other artistic interventions, this lecture explores how artists expose the traumas of war, neoliberalism, displacement, and repression of the female and indigenous body while condemning nations' complacency, placing Central America in both an artistic and broader socio-political context.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the UCLA Latin American Institute
  • [Job Talk] Black Belonging, Indigenous Sovereignty: The Intersections of Blackness and Indigeneity in Post-Rebellion Detriot
    Thursday, March 2, 2017, 4pm - 6pm, Cornell Hall Room D307, UCLA Anderson School of Management
    Presented by Kyle T. Mays, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • [Job Talk] Against Possession Through Whiteness: Challenging Race and Settler Colonialism in Hawai'i
    Friday, February 24, 2017, 2pm - 4pm, Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center
    Presented by Dr. Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • [Job Talk] The Indigenous Other: Native Photography's Desires and Discontents
    Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 4pm - 6pm, Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center
    Presented by Dr. Nancy Marie Mithlo, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Arts, Occidental College and Chair, American Indian Studies, Autry Museum of the American West
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Damaging Minds and Bodies: Trauma, Violence, and the Criminal Justice System
    Friday, February 10, 10am - 4pm, Charles E. Young Research Library Conference Room and
    Saturday, February 11, 10am - 4pm, Dodd 147
    A two-day symposium addressing the destructive impact of the U.S. criminal justice system, including through policing, courts, jails, prisons, and immigration detention facilities, on the physical and mental health on racially and economically vulnerable communities, people with disabilities, and families. A central theme and purpose of the event involves confronting contemporary criminal justice practices as, essentially, a public health crisis. Some specific areas for dialogue and learning include the degenerative health effects of prison and detention conditions, collective trauma and terror within communities of color stemming from police violence, justice system treatment of sexually vulnerable and gender-nonconforming people, deaths of incarcerated people with mental illness, the invisibility of indigenous people in contemporary dialogue about policing and incarceration, racial profiling, detention and persecution of Muslim, Arab and Middle Eastern people, and the relationships between healthcare and social service disparities and vulnerability to arrest and incarceration.
    Sponsored by Repair and Cosoponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, the UCLA Law Youth and Justice Clinic, the UCLA Disabilities Center, NASW, and NetCE
  • Pursuing the PhD?: Process of the PhD Path, Application Tips, and Choosing a Program
    Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 2:00pm - 1:15pm, Public Affairs Building, Room 4357
    A panel about doctoral programs from three UCLA professors, Dr. David Shorter (World Arts and Cultures), Dr. Shannon Speed (Gender Studies, Anthropology), and Dr. Ananda Marin (Education). Recommended for Undergrad and Graduate Students.
    Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Taking Control: A Hawaiian Chief, Indigenous Worlds, and the Fringes of Empires
    Thursday, February 2, 2017, 3-5 PM, Gold Hall Room B313, UCLA Anderson School of Management
    A special lecture presented by Professor David Chang, Department of History at the University of Minnesota.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center

2016
  • IAC Fall Forum and Reception
    Thursday, December 1, 2016, 4:30-7 PM, California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
    Honoring the Visiting Scholars, Post-Doc, and Research Grant Awardees of 2016-17.
    Hosted by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures
    Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, and Chicano Studies Research Center
  • 10th Annual LA SKINS Fest
    Friday, November 18, 2016, 8 PM, Barnsdall Gallery Art Theater
    Free Film Screening of FIRE SONG
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Standing Rock Teach-in
    Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 3:30-5:30 PM, Dickson Court North
    Join UCLA students, faculty, postdocs, and guests for #NoDAPL Day of Action by leading a teach-in on the Dakota Access Pipeline and resistance/water protection. Members of our UCLA community who have traveled to Standing Rock will share their knowledge and experiences.
    Hosted by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Caravan Against Repression in Mexico
    Monday, November 14, 2016, 12-2 PM, 144 Haines Hall
    Representatives of diverse sectors of Mexican society fighting against state repression and the US militarization of Mexico will appear to educate students and the public about the their cause.
    The Caravan brings together 2 mothers of the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa; a student from the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero; agricultural workers of San Quintín; a representative and relative of a political prisoner from Committee of Victims from Nochixtlán, Oaxaca; a member of the Otomí community from Xochicuautla; and a mother from Return Our Daughters Home of Ciudad Júarez.
    Co-sponsors: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, and the Latin American Institute
  • Cherokee Nation History Course at UCLA
    Saturday-Sunday, November 5-6, 2016 & Saturday-Sunday, November 19-20, 2016, 9 AM - 6 PM, Haines Hall A25
    Join Cherokee Nation citizens in the Los Angeles area, students, and others in exploring a complex and fascinating tribal history. This course has been awarded by Harvard's "Honoring Nations" program for tribal initiatives that support the understanding and expansion of tribal sovereignty. Covering legal, governmental, social, and cultural aspects of the history, the Cherokee Nation History Course is a well-rounded view of this story as understood by Cherokees themselves.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Beyond the Elections: Political Impacts on Communities of Color
    Thursday, October 27, 2016, 5:30-8PM, 144 Haines Hall
    What can we learn from this election season and how can we use this knowledge to advance racial and political equity? Featuring a panel of UCLA scholars and researchers, this critical discussion will address local, state, and national discourse and referenda and their impact on communities of color. In addition to candidates for elected office, several propositions will be on the November ballot that may significantly affect underprivileged populations, including the poor, immigrant, and those imprisoned for non-violent crimes.
    Sponsored by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures; Organized by the Asian American Studies Center, the American Indian Studies Center, the Bunche Center for African American Studies, and the Chicano Studies Research Center
  • Solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico in Resistance
    Monday, October 24, 2016, Conference Room 2 & 3, Student Activties Center
    A special presentation by Comandanta Nestora Salgado, ex-political prisoner and authority of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities Police-Community (CRAC-PC) of Guerrero.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and UCLA Latin American Institute
  • 31st Annual California Indian Conference
    Thursday-Saturday, October 20-22, 2016, San Diego State University
    This conference brings together California Indians, educators, tribal scholars, academics, students, public agencies, organizations and institutions, and the general public.
    Co-sponsored by California State University Office of the Chancellor, SDSU President's Leadership Fund, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Procopio, Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, SDSU Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming, SDSU Department of American Indian Studies, Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians, University of San Diego—Office of the Tribal Liaison, SDSU College of Arts and Letters, SDSU College of Education, Barona Band of Mission Indians, SDSU Native American Scholars and Collaborators Project, San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, Native American Student Development, UC Berkeley, SDSU Department of English and Comparative Literature
  • 2016 World Indigenous Law Conference: Rights, Responsibilities, and Resilience: An International Discourse on Indigenous Peoples' Jurisprudence
    Wednesday-Saturday, October 19-22, 2016, The Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering
    The World Indigenous Law Conference is held every two years and will be hosted in October 2016 in North America for the first time. This Conference is an international forum aimed at gathering Indigenous lawyers, practitioners, academics and those interested in furthering their understanding of issues facing Indigenous Peoples. Key elements of this conference include an international discourse on Indigenous Peoples' Jurisprudence: examining legal frameworks and strategies for self-determined futures.
    Co-sponsor: UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • UCLA American Indian Welcome
    Monday, October 3, 2016, 5:00–7:00PM, UCLA Pauley Pavilion Clubhouse
    Students, alumni, community members, faculty, and staff are invited to the 2016 welcome celebration for the American Indian community at UCLA
    Co-sponsor: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Student Association, UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, and Diversity Programs, UCLA Alumni Affairs
  • Sundaes on Tuesdays
    Tuesday, August 16, 2016, 11:30AM–1:30PM, UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center, B36 SAC
    LGBT Center's second annual sundaes on Tuesdays
    Co-sponsor: UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • 6th Annual L.A. Skins Music Fest
    Saturday, July 23, 2016, 5–9PM, The Frog Spot, 2825 Benedict Street Los Angeles, CA 90039
    A Native American concert series that celebrates contemporary Native American musicians. (Free admission)
    Co-sponsor: UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • American Indian Graduation Celebration
    Friday, June 10, 2016, 4:30 – 7pm, De Neve Plaza View Room
    End of the year celebration for the graduates (graduate, undergraduate, and professional) of the American Indian Studies at UCLA.
    Host: UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, UCLA American Indian Student Association
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • 5th Annual American Indian Research Symposium
    Wednesday, June 8, 2016, 10am – 3pm, UCLA School of Law, Room 2248
    Join the Interdepartmental Program as they celebrate the research of the graduating class of 2016 – Master Theses, Undergraduate Major Capstones and other student research/internships.
    Host: UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Give a Name and Face to Political Prisoners Campaign 2016
    Friday, June 3, 2016, 3 – 5pm, Chicano Studies Research Center Library 144 Haines Hall
    This event is based on communities in resistance and criminalization. Presented by Nestora Salgado, Atziri Avila, Gloria Munez, Laura Carlsen, Gasper Rivera-Salgado
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
  • Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective
    Wednesday – Thursday, May 25 – 26, 2016, Royce 306 & 314 and Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium of the Fowler Museum
    This conference brings together scholars who work on racialized police violence in North America with others who work in Brazil, Central America, the UK, the Caribbean, and elsewhere to consider the questions of pressing global importance including economic inequality, state power, racism and indigeneity.
    Host: UCLA Center for the Study of Women
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Alessandro Duranti, David Schaberg, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Robin D.G. Kelley, Eric Avila, UCLA African Studies Center, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, UCLA Department of Gender Studies, Disability Studies at UCLA, UCLA International Institute, and UCLA Postcolonial Theory and Literary Studies
  • Resolving Conflict & Loss: an Indigenous Path
    Thursday, May 12, 2016, 1:15 – 2:30pm, United Nations FF Building, Room 1528
    Presenters examined the situations of indigenous persons living in New Zealand, Samoa, and Ukrainian Crimea to demonstrate why and how structural forms of violence historically remained the core cause of interstate and international conflicts. Presented by Valmaine Toki, Lydia Moira Faitalia, Ulia Popova (Gosart)
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • Contemporary Indigenous and Native American Cultures in North and Central America
    Thursday, May 12, 2016, 9 - 12 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
    A symposium on Contemporary Indigenous and Native American Cultures in North and Central America.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Center for Mexican Studies, Institut d'ethnologie Méditerranéenne Européenne et Comparative,
  • The 31st Annual UCLA Pow Wow
    Saturday-Sunday, May 7-8, 2016, UCLA North Athletic Field
    The 31st annual pow wow, organized and presented by the UCLA American Indian Student Association, featuring traditional Native American singing and dancing, the Miss UCLA Pow Wow Pageant.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • El Penacho de Moctezuma
    May 6, 2016, 2 - 4 PM, Royce Hall 314
    Documentary screening of "El Penacho de Moctezuma" with a Q&A with Dr. María Olvido Moreno Guzmán to follow.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA Getty, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
  • Contemporary Mexican Featherwork: An Ancient Tradition
    May 4, 2016, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
    Dr. María Olvido Moreno Guzmán, Coordinator of "Project Prehispanic Mural Painting in Mexico," Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, Mexico, discusses the history and evolution of Mexican featherwork.
    Co-sponsored by UCLA Getty, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
  • A Student Luncheon and Discussion with Dr. Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz
    April 26, 12-1 PM, 3343 Public Affairs
    A meet & greet with Dr. Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Senior Program Officer, American Indian College Fund
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
  • La Costumbre del Maíz con los Nahuas de Chicontepec, Veracruz
    April 20, 3-5 PM, 144 Haines Hall
    Presentation and lecture on the ceremonial planting of maize by Professor Eduardo De La Cruz. Eduardo De La Cruz is the Assistant Director of Instituto de Docencia e Investigación de Zacatecas (INDIEZ).
  • Simposio sobre académicos Indígenas
    April 19, 4-5:30 PM, Rolfe Hall 4302
    Dos Académicos Indígenas conversando sobre sus experiencias y metas en la enseñanza de Idiomas Indígenas a la Academia y Comunidad.
    Hosted by: UCLA Latin American Institute
    Co-sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
  • Urgent Issues Forum/Foro Urgente: The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and the Future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Environmental and Land Rights in Honduras
    Friday, April 8, 2016, 9 AM - 2 PM, Presentation Room, Charles E. Young Research Library
    This urgent forum explores the issues of resource extraction and state violence and their impact on the future of indigenous and environmental rights activism in Honduras.
    Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Research Studies Center, UCLA Center of Study for Women, UCLA Latin American Institute, and Grassroots International.
  • Fantasizing and Reframing the (Un)Human: Lived Settler Logics and Literary Sites of Disruptive Relationality
    Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 4-6 PM, 2125 Rolfe Hall.
    Lecture by Dr. Rene Dietrich, seeked to investigate the lived settler logics of "humanness" and to ask how literary strategies of relationality in contemporary Native writing work to disrupt them.
  • Trying Times: Disability, Activism and Education in Samoa
    Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 3-5 PM, 2343 Public Affairs
    Lecture by Dr. Juliann Anesi.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, REPAIR AND NetCE.
  • Biopolitics, Aging and the Struggle for Indigenous Elsewhere
    Thursday, February 18, 2016, 2-4 PM, Cypress Room, UCLA Faculty Center
    Lecture by Professor Sandy Grande.
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, REPAIR AND NetCE.
  • The Next Frontier in Federal Indian Law: Building on the Foundational Work of Carole E. Goldberg, UCLA School of Law
    Friday, February 5, 2016, UCLA Law School
    This year's Symposium will focus on cutting edge issues in federal Indian law and, in so doing, celebrate the 40+ year career of Jonathon D. Varat Professor of Law Carole E. Goldberg. Federal Indian law, broadly defined, governs the relationship between the federal government and the more than 566 Indian nations within the United States, as well as implicating states' rights and raising questions that bear on tribal law and issues of self-determination.
    Hosted by the UCLA Law Review
    Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Critical Race Studies

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