News

April 18, 2018
YGSNA faculty coordinator Professor Ned Blackhawk and former YGSNA member Dr. Isaiah Wilner have co-edited a “revelatory and transformative volume” that interrogates the...
April 6, 2018
YGSNA is accepting applications to send a graduate student to the 2018 Summer Institute of the Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (“NCAIS”). The...
March 12, 2018
For three days in early March, YGSNA member, Zachary Conn, and Yale Native American Arts Council Member, Joseph Zordan, attended a multi-university workshop organized by of...
Ali Cobby Eckermann-Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood
March 9, 2018
On Wednesday, March 21st at 5pm at the Peabody Museum, Ali Cobby Eckermann (Yankunytjatjara) will return to Yale to share her just released memoir, Too Afraid to Cry (W.W....
Henry Roe Cloud, photo about 1910
February 27, 2018
The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) invites applications for the 2018 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian and Indigenous...
Image of Lisa Brooks' book Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War and Christine DeLucia's book Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
February 23, 2018
On February 20th at the Peabody Museum, YGSNA members welcomed professors Lisa Brooks and Christine DeLucia to celebrate the highly anticipated publication of their new books...
Sovereignty Set Design, Arena Stage; photo credit Cameron Whitman
February 15, 2018
On January 27, nearly a dozen members of the Native American Cultural Center community traveled with leaders of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program to Washington, D.C...