News

August 27, 2014
YGSNA faculty coordinator, Ned Blackhawk (History and American Studies), delivered a keynote address at the annual gathering of the International Association of Genocide...
July 18, 2014
YGSNA member Isaiah Wilner has received the Canadian Historical Association’s 2014 Aboriginal Essay Prize for his essay, “A Global Potlatch: Identifying the Indigenous...
July 15, 2014
For the third consecutive summer, Yale’s Peabody Museum held an institute designed for high school teachers to learn more about the hemisphere’s Native peoples. This year’s...
May 30, 2014
The Yale Group for the Study of Native America was well represented at this year’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) annual meetings. Hosted by UT-...
May 23, 2014
In April, YGSNA coordinators received notice of our working group’s successful proposal to be registered as a participating organization for the United Nations Permanent...
May 23, 2014
Leaving her work at the National Museum of the American Indian to join Yale’s American Studies graduate program, YGSNA member Anya Montiel has continued to work with...
May 12, 2014
How does indigenous membership interrupt the stories we think we know about nation-states? How does the recognition of indigenous peoples in Canadian and U.S. law and policy...