Honors and Awards

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)
Faustino Hampson-Medina
Faustino Hampson-Medina, AIS minor, Chosen as Husky 100
(May 12, 2022)
Stuart Heslop, AIS and Linguistics major, Class of 2022, profile
Couldn't Be Prouder - AIS's First Departmental Honors Graduate
(April 7, 2022)
Laura De Vos smiling at camera
Laura De Vos, UW alum and indigenous studies scholar, wins Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Published Academic Essay
(January 18, 2022)
portrait Han Eckelberg left and Toelau Gasetoto right
OPIS Shines in Husky 100
(June 10, 2021)
Sierra Campbell 2020 Udall Scholar
Sierra Campbell Named 2020 Udall Scholar
(November 23, 2020)
Book Cover Reclaiming the Reservation with photo of Professor Harmon
Dr. Alexandra Harmon Awarded Western History Association Robert G. Athearn Award in 2020
(November 23, 2020)
Group photo all ocean nexus fellows
MEET THE OCEAN NEXUS INDIGENOUS OCEAN ECOLOGIES FELLOWS
(November 19, 2020)
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AIS student, Stuart Heslop wins  Thomas A. Lederman Endowed Scholarship
(May 26, 2020)
Sierra Red Bow and Reidar Kelstrup, Phi Beta Kappa invitees and AIS majors
American Indian Studies Students Honored as Phi Beta Kappa Invitees
(April 13, 2020)
Professor Charlotte Cote
Charlotte Coté to Present 16th annual Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture
(February 13, 2020)
Owen Oliver at the UW Intellectual House
AIS student, Owen Oliver, becomes a 2020 Champion for Change
(January 29, 2020)
Vancouver coastline view out of bookstore window
Living in Place: an Indigenous student’s perspective abroad — Corbett scholar Owen Oliver
(November 19, 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)
Scott Pinkham
Scott Pinkham Receives Distinguished Alumni Award
(October 9, 2018)
Stephanie Fryberg
Dr. Fryberg appointed Gerberding University Professor
(September 25, 2018)
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
AIS Faculty Member Receives Fellowship Award
(March 5, 2018)
The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs
"The Sea Is My Country" Receives Three Major Awards
(September 28, 2016)
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Two AIS students honored as Dean's Medalists
(June 22, 2016)
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Elissa Washuta Receives Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award, Fremont Bridge Residency
(May 20, 2016)
My Body Is a Book of Rules
AIS Adviser Elissa Washuta named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award
(September 14, 2015)
Stephanie Riedl
AIS major Stephanie Riedl receives 2015 Bonderman Travel Fellowship
(April 3, 2015)
Shanoa Pinkham
2011-2012 Miss Yakama Nation Shanoa Pinkham!
(July 25, 2011)
Dian Million
Dian Million's "Felt Theory" Is an Award Finalist!
(May 9, 2011)