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A talk sponsored by the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues is now available as a Berkeley Talks podcast. Professor Sarah Deer discusses the...Read more about New Podcast Release: Sarah Deer

Video is now available of “A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return,” presented by Sandy White Hawk, Founder and Director, First Nations Repatriation Institute. White Hawk depicts the story of her life work:...Read more about Sandy White Hawk: “A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return”

Carolyn Smith, Myers Center faculty affiliate, joined UC Berkeley’s anthropology department as an assistant professor this year....Read more about Welcoming UC Berkeley’s Newest Anthropology Faculty Member

Video is now available of “The Brackeen Decision and the Future of the Indian Child Welfare Act” a talk by Sarah Deer, University Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas, and Chief Justice for...Read more about Sarah Deer on Brackeen and ICWA

The University of California has awarded Peter Nelson, faculty affiliate of the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, with a California Climate Action Seed Grant to fund his work towards wildfire control. Nelson’s project, Forging Essential...Read more about California Climate Action Seed Grants

Myers Center Graduate Fellow Valentín Sierra was selected as a Berkeley Connect Fellow for...Read more about Congratulations Valentín Sierra

Nezune Menka, faculty affiliate of Center for Research on Native American Issues, was featured on 'Be the Change,' a Berkeley News podcast. Menka discusses the...Read more about Nezune Menka on Decolonizing UC Berkeley

The Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues awarded grants to two UCB students. Sierra Hampton, a doctoral student in Environmental Policy, Science, and Management, received the grant for their project "Researching Food...Read more about Myers Center Awards New Grants for Student Research

On September 22, ISSI's Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues hosted a talk by Clint Carroll on indigenous access and political ecology in settler states. "...Read more about Reuniting with Our Lands and Waters

The University of California announced the Native American Opportunity Plan which covers tuition and fees for...Read more about Free UC Tuition for All California Native American Students

Anjika Pai, a recipient of a mini-grant from ISSI's Center for Research on Native American Issues, is this...Read more about East Coast Grit Meets Berkeley Utopianism

Shari Huhndorf, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Native American Issues, wrote a new article in Washington Monthly telling the ...Read more about Native, Inc.

Jesús I’x Nazario, a graduate student affiliated with ISSI's Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, is featured in this Berkeley News article celebrating the linguistic diversity and multilingualism celebrated by ...Read more about Keeping Alive Our Indigenous Cultures

Peter Nelson, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Native American Issues, was featured in this Berkeley News article. Professor Nelson is an assistant professor of environmental science, policy and management and of ethnic studies who...Read more about Professor Peter Nelson Adds Wildland Firefighting to His Expertise

ISSI's Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues & Native American Student Development at UC Berkeley are pleased to announce the release of a new report, The University of California Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land—A Report of Key...Read more about The University of California Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land—A Report of Key Learnings and Recommendations

In this essay in American Anthropologist, Peter Nelson, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Native American Issues and former ISSI Graduate Fellow, explains how...Read more about Where Have All the Anthros Gone?

In a new post on the Berkeley Blog, ISSI's Joseph A. Myers Center affiliated scholar Nazune Menka explains the...Read more about Deb Haaland’s Confirmation as Interior Secretary to Indigenous Communities

Several of ISSI's Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues Center affiliates were quoted in this article, including Peter Nelson, an alum of ISSI's Graduate Fellows Program who is now a UC Berkeley faculty member, and Danny Sosa Aguilar...Read more about Indigenous Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future

Graduate student Ataya Cesspooch is quoted in this Berkeley News article about the unnaming of Kroeber Hall, which previously honored an anthropologist...Read more about Kroeber Hall "Unnamed"

The Daily Cal published an article abut the first UC Land Grab event co-sponsored by ISSI's Joseph Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues. Panelists...Read more about Funding the UCs Through Indigenous Land

ISSI's Center for Research on Native American Issues faculty affiliate Beth Piatote published a new short story in the San Francisco Chronicle; "...Read more about Level 8 Risk

ISSI's Center for Research on Native American Issues affiliated faculty member Beth Piatote was quoted in two articles about the current fight to topple racist monuments and change racist place names:

“People aren’t...Read more about Racist Monuments and Place Names