Community Impact

Vi Hilbert along a shoreline
A Healing Heart Returns
December 12, 2025
Portrait Professor Josh Reid looking at camera
AIS Professor Josh Reid adds perspective in KNKX Article on Billy Frank Jr. Statue
March 24, 2025
Canoe Journey 2023, Paddle to Muckleshoot, Honoring our Warriors Past and Present, part 1
Canoe Journey 2023, Paddle to Muckleshoot, Honoring our Warriors Past and Present
October 3, 2023
Student members of the canoe family participate in the cleansing of the canoe during the Canoe Awakening in April 2023. Photo by Mark Stone.
"Creating spaces of possibility" for our Native Students, Faculty, and Staff
June 1, 2023
Sherri Berdine smiling at camera
College Profiles Sherri Berdine, UW's first official Director of Tribal Relations
February 27, 2023
Sketch of proposed canoe house on South Lake Union by architecture firm
Seattle Announces Plans for New Canoe Carving House
January 18, 2023
Sierra Red Bow smiling at camera
A Cultural Directory  We Know You'll Love
June 27, 2022
Stephanie Masterman sits outside the Burke museum holding a Tlingit cedar canoe paddle she recently carved
A Tlinglit Leader in the Making
June 1, 2022
Professor P. Joshua Griffin
“The stars have moved”: how climate change is impacting the planet at multiple scales
May 4, 2022
Leonard Forsman
Leonard Forsman named first Native American on UW Board of Regents
October 27, 2021
Canoe paddle sculptures outside Burke Museum, cover for Indigenous Walking Tour booklet
UW Indigenous Walking Tour Now Available!
June 8, 2021
artist Joe Seymour in front of his installed salmon artwork
AIS Instructor Joe Seymour Brings Coast Salish Salmon to Olympia Waterfront
March 3, 2021
Profile of Miranda Belarde-Lewis
Miranda Belarde-Lewis featured as part of #UWInnovates
March 1, 2021
Short Talks banner
Full Recording of Short Talks: Home
February 5, 2021
Owen Oliver at the UW Intellectual House
Owen Oliver featured in College's Newsletter for his Indigenous Walking Tour
January 26, 2021
Statement of Support for Our Sipekne’katik Relatives and All Mi’kmaq Fishers
Statement of Support for Our Sipekne’katik Relatives and All Mi’kmaq Fishers
November 2, 2020
Statement of Support for our Māori Colleagues and Staff at the University of Waikato
Statement of Support for our Māori Colleagues and Staff at the University of Waikato
September 15, 2020
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UW American Indian Studies Stands in Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives
June 8, 2020
Tami Hohn
AIS Lecturer Tami Hohn- The Language of the Land
May 4, 2020
Center staff at an open house in 2019
CAIIS Offering Emergency Student Grant
April 6, 2020
Sample shot of new website identifying Coast Salish art in King County
New Tool Helps Locate Coast Salish Art in King County
March 2, 2020
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, from left, Rob Alfred, John Ridsdale (Na'Moks) and Antoinette Austin, rally in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Smithers, B.C., on Jan. 10, 2020.
AIS Stands in Solidarity and in Support of the Wet’suwet’en People
February 13, 2020
Owen Oliver at the UW Intellectual House
AIS student, Owen Oliver, becomes a 2020 Champion for Change
January 29, 2020
Auston Jimmicum at the UW Intellectual house
Auston Jimmicum, AIS minor, reflects on how he's grown at the UW
January 29, 2020
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
University Launches New Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
University Launches New Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
October 25, 2018
Chris Teuton, chair of American Indian Studies at the UW, displays the next letter for the group to practice. Teuton is Cherokee. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times)
The Seattle Times joins us for Southern Lushootseed class
January 16, 2018
Still image of movie screening of " Because of Who I Am", one of the films presented by Marcella Ernest
Indigenous Feminisms Speaker Series Brings Together Students, Faculty, and Community
November 6, 2017
A statue of Christopher Columbus defaced in New York City's Central Park
History Channel Interviews AIS Faculty Christopher Teuton and Stephanie Fryberg
October 3, 2017
Grand Opening & Housewarming, March 12, 2015
wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House opens on campus
March 14, 2015
Native Action Network 2013
April 22, 2013
Bullet Proof
Bullet Proof
March 21, 2013
Flashmob at UW: Idle No More
Flashmob at UW: Idle No More
March 18, 2013
Inspirational Videos: Idle No More
Inspirational Videos: Idle No More
March 14, 2013
Beauty In and On Earth
Beauty In and On Earth
March 10, 2013
Idle No More Voices
Idle No More Voices
March 4, 2013
Taiaiake Alfred
Idle No More and Indigenous Nationhood
February 27, 2013
Short Documentary about Idle No More
Short Documentary about Idle No More
February 21, 2013
Woman with sign supporting chief Teresa Spence
"Warrior Women" by Jen Ten Bears
February 15, 2013
Silence is violence. how will you use your voice?
February 14th Idle No More
February 14, 2013
Idle No More
What is Idle No More?
February 11, 2013
Charlotte Cote and Daniel Hart
Voices of the First Peoples Film Series premieres September 16
September 14, 2012
Tribal Journeys in the New York Times
Tribal Journeys in the New York Times
July 29, 2011
Indigenous Knowledge Systems - 10th Annual NASAA Symposium
Indigenous Knowledge Systems - 10th Annual NASAA Symposium
May 2, 2011
American Indian Film Festival at Bellevue College
April 28, 2011