News

October 21, 2025
From March 26 to 28, 2026, YGSNA and the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project will host their spring conference at Yale. Titled First America: The Legacies of the...
October 19, 2025
The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) welcomes Professor Philip J. Deloria (Yankton Dakota), Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard, for his...
September 16, 2025
Join YGSNA and friends at the Yale Farm on Friday, October 24. The Fall Feast offers an occasion to share a meal while celebrating the Three Sisters and honoring Indigenous...
September 12, 2025
We’ve formulated our schedule of events for Fall 2025! You can now view the full lineup here.
September 3, 2025
For the first time, Yale is offering a certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Starting this fall, undergraduates can pursue this interdisciplinary certificate...
August 23, 2025
In June, YGSNA members as well as staff from the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project attended the annual conference of the Native American and Indigenous Studies...
Verner Wilson III smiling outdoors with a coastal landscape in the background
August 17, 2025
YGSNA mourns the passing of Verner Wilson III (Yup’ik of the Curyung Tribe), who left us far too soon at the age of 36 on March 23, 2023. Verner was a tireless Alaska Native...