Announcements

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AIS Invites Applications for Part-Time Lecturer Pool (AY 2026–27)
February 25, 2026
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A Healing Heart Returns
December 12, 2025
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Announcing New AIS Arts Faculty Member Joe Seymour
June 11, 2025
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American Indian Studies Department Announces Securing $1.45 million grant from Mellon Foundation
May 3, 2024
Dr. Jessica Bissett-Perea
AIS Welcomes Two Amazing New Faculty Members
April 25, 2023
L-R, Authors, Larry Shade, MaryBeth Timothy, and Christopher B. Teuton
Congratulations to AIS Chair and Professor, Dr. Christopher B. Teuton on His New Book
March 22, 2023
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Congratulations to Professor Charlotte Coté on Her Promotion and a New Book
April 14, 2022
Living Breath Symposium Seeking Part-time Coordinator
November 24, 2021
Tami Hohn writes the word 'alive' in Southern Lushootseed
Lushootseed Thriving at AIS - Tami Hohn Hired as Permanent Full-Time Southern Lushootseed Instructor
June 28, 2021
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MEET THE OCEAN NEXUS INDIGENOUS OCEAN ECOLOGIES FELLOWS
November 19, 2020
Statement of Support for Our Sipekne’katik Relatives and All Mi’kmaq Fishers
November 2, 2020
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UW American Indian Studies Stands in Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives
June 8, 2020
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CAIIS Offering Emergency Student Grant
April 6, 2020
Resources for dealing with COVID-19
March 24, 2020
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New Tool Helps Locate Coast Salish Art in King County
March 2, 2020
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Charlotte Coté to Present 16th annual Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture
February 13, 2020
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The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Call for Presenters
December 19, 2019
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UW Graduate School to Get First Indigenous Studies Program
December 17, 2019
Professor Holly Barker with several of her students
Public Statement in Support of Dr. Holly Barker's Scholarship
October 23, 2019
Iisaaksiichaa Braine and Jean Dennison speaking about CAIIS at the welebaltx intellectual house
Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies receives $1.8M Mellon Foundation grant
September 23, 2019
"Raven's Journey" by Marvin Oliver, in the UW HUB
AIS Professor Emeritus Marvin Oliver to Receive UW’s 2019 Odegaard Award
January 23, 2019
University Launches New Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
October 25, 2018
Chris Teuton, chair of American Indian Studies, shows off original artwork by local artist and AIS professor emeritus, Marvin Oliver, in the AIS office
AIS Featured in the Daily
February 22, 2018
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Announcing Revised American Indian Studies Curriculum
January 9, 2018
Certificate Graduates group photo 2017
Tribal gaming certificate addresses economic reality of Indian reservations
December 11, 2017
Tribal gaming cohort 2016
New Tribal Gaming & Hospitality Management Certificate
February 13, 2017
Statement of Support for Students
February 11, 2017
AIS Support of the Standing Rock Sioux and Water Protectors
November 21, 2016
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AIS announces "Sacred Breath," a new literary and storytelling series
September 23, 2016
Burke Museum welcomes Dr. Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse as Curator of Northwest Native Art
July 13, 2016
UW College of Education seeks Artist in Residence
April 20, 2016
Study Abroad: Indigenous Sámi Culture and Connection to the Land in Arctic Europe
February 10, 2016
AIS Seeks Assistant Professor of Indigenous Environmental and Sustainability Studies 
October 16, 2015
Interdisciplinary Writing Studio open for students of AIS, AES, GEOG, and GWSS
October 14, 2015
AIS in Viewpoint Magazine
September 23, 2015
AIS majors Stephanie Riedl and Damon Cunningham with AIS gear
AIS merchandise is now available for purchase!
February 26, 2015
Chris Teuton
AIS Welcomes New Faculty
December 19, 2014
wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ, or Intellectual House
Opening celebration of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ scheduled for March 12-13, 2015
December 19, 2014
Breaking ground on Wәłәb?altxw Intellectual House
Wәłәb?altxw Intellectual House groundbreaking: photos and coverage
November 4, 2013
UW American Indian Studies Seeks Department Chair Candidates
October 17, 2013
Charlotte Cote and Daniel Hart
Voices of the First Peoples Film Series premieres September 16
September 14, 2012
Call for Course Proposals from the Department of American Indian Studies
November 2, 2011
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Interesting objects from the AIS office, #1
April 22, 2011