News

September 18, 2018
Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson (M.D. ’00) returned to campus to speak with President Peter Salovey as part of the President’s Women of Yale Lecture series, co-sponsored by the...
September 11, 2018
The Fall 2018 Schedule of Events for the Yale Group for the Study of Native American (YGSNA) has now been announced! YGSNA will host several new and returning scholars;...
 Professor Alanna Hickey (English)
September 5, 2018
The centuries-old traditions of Native American literary expression have grown on campus with the recent appointment of Assistant Professor Alanna Hickey in the Department of...
Indian Melodies by Thomas Commuck (photo)
June 19, 2018
The centuries-old tradition of communal hymnal signing among Northeastern Native nations came to life in February. Gathered in Connecticut Hall (Yale’s oldest building), many...
The winners of the Third Annual Yale Young Native Storyteller Contest (from left to right): Charlize Arcoren (Sicangu Lakota), Teanna Hart (Sicangu Lakota), Zooey White (Ogalala Lakota), Vonica LaPlante (MHA Nation), Everett George (Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe), and YIPAP’s Associate Director Reed Adair Bobroff (Navajo Nation).
May 25, 2018
(Yale University, New Haven, CT) This year’s Third Annual Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s (“YIPAP”) Young Native Storyteller Festival was a resounding success full...
The Lakȟóta language class meets twice a week at the NACC. Photo by Robbie Short.
May 3, 2018
The New Journal, a student publication run by Yale undergraduates, has published an article profiling the Lakȟóta community class offered through the Native American Language...
Professor Stephanie Fielding, a Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow, has worked to preserve and revitalize the Mohegan language.
April 23, 2018
YaleNews​, the university’s online news service, has published an article delving into the linguistic revitalization work of Presidential Visiting Fellow Stephanie...