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Professor Ned Blackhawk holding a hand drum in salute of the Yale Blue Feather Drum Group as they performed during the March of Resilience. [Photo credit: Tyler Rogers]
November 13, 2015
 On Wednesday, November 11th, YGSNA members Professor Birgit Brander Rasmussen and Dean Kelly Fayard participated in the “Race at Yale Teach-in.” Addressing an audience of...
November 6, 2015
At the 55th annual Western History Association (WHA) conference, current and former YGSNA members actively participated in conference sessions, shared new publications, and...
October 29, 2015
Yale University Professor Ned Blackhawk (History and American Studies) and Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program Executive Director Mary Kathryn Nagle each recently...
October 26, 2015
On October 22nd, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, Arvo Mikkanen (Law ’86) returned to Yale for a series of meetings with law students, a noontime...
October 14, 2015
In September, the Indian Country Today Media Network profiled the newest YGSNA member, Dean Kelly Fayard (Poarch Band of Creek Indians). Dr. Fayard is an assistant dean of...
October 12, 2015
This summer, YGSNA member Anya Montiel (American Studies) became a curatorial fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, DC. One...
October 7, 2015
Under the leadership of YGSNA member, Dr. Angela Gleason, the Native American Language Project (NALP) has added new and more expansive Native American language training....