In the Press

Vi Hilbert along a shoreline
A Healing Heart Returns
December 12, 2025
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AIS Professor Josh Reid Discusses Some of the Challenges Makahs Experience at Exercising Treaty Whaling Rights
November 19, 2025
Devin Sampson Craig in graduation gown
A Netflix Film, Then a UW Degree
September 29, 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
Professor Jean Dennison
What Killers of The Flower Moon Doesn’t Show About Osage Nation’s Legacy
October 23, 2023
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
Professor Joshua L. Reid
AIS Professor Josh Reid interviewed for Seattle Times article on Lummi fishing
April 10, 2023
Sketch of proposed canoe house on South Lake Union by architecture firm
Seattle Announces Plans for New Canoe Carving House
January 18, 2023
Iisaaksiichaa Braine
The Meaning of Powwow featuring Iisaaksiichaa Braine on NBC Nightly Films
January 4, 2023
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AIS Professor Josh Reid on Orca Recovery
August 3, 2022
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AIS Professor Josh Reid Discusses the Historical Context around Federal Recognition of Puget Sound Tribal Nations
May 29, 2022
Professor Charlotte Cote standing in a wooded area
Professor Charlotte Coté featured in Crosscut Article on Indigenous Reclamation
April 29, 2021
Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Surveying the Native art of the Pacific Northwest
April 6, 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
Laura De Vos smiling at camera
AIS Lecturer Publishes Article for Indigenous Sovereignty
December 16, 2020
Black Lives Matter on Indigenous Lands article cover photo
AIS Graduate Publishes Article - BLM on Indigenous Lands in California
November 4, 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
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
the Willapa Spirit honor canoe
American Indian Studies class, "Engaging with the Waterways," featured in UW Daily
November 27, 2018
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University Launches New Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
October 25, 2018
Canoes landing on Alki Beach during the Tribal Canoe Journeys, July 2018
Professor Coté Takes Students Beyond the Classroom
September 12, 2018
Cover of the Spring 2018 Issue of Daedalus
Dr. Stephanie Fryberg showcases her work in the Spring 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 18, 2018
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Indigenous Knowledge is Critical to Understanding Climate Change
April 11, 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
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
Stephanie Fryberg
Professor Stephanie Fryberg's research featured on NPR
November 16, 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
Charlotte Coté
Charlotte Coté Profile in The Whole U
July 22, 2016
Intellectual House
UW Today on Indigenous faculty and scholarship
March 9, 2016
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AIS in Viewpoint Magazine
September 23, 2015
Charlotte Robinson
UW Daily coverage of the "Living Breath of Wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Ways of Knowing Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge Symposium
September 29, 2014
Breaking ground on Wәłәb?altxw Intellectual House
Wәłәb?altxw Intellectual House groundbreaking: photos and coverage
November 4, 2013
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Tribal Journeys in the New York Times
July 29, 2011