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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...
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...