The Joseph A. Myers Center was founded in 2010 with a mission is to provide the people of Indian country with pragmatic research products that can be employed to improve the quality of life for Native Americans throughout the US. The Center fulfills this mission by bringing the resources of the University to Native communities; developing, coordinating and funding collaborative, community-driven research projects; providing technical assistance and training; disseminating research publications and reports; and hosting conferences, colloquia and other events open to the public on topics of concern to Native communities.
As part of our mission, we also acknowledge and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. The Center sits on on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, and every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from, the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. We recognize that the Muwekma Ohlone people are alive and flourishing members of the Berkeley and broader Bay Area communities today, and we would like to thank the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and Native American Student Development (UCB) for developing this land acknowledgement and resource page.
Myers Center News
Funding the UCs Through Indigenous Land
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
Level 8 Risk
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
Racist Monuments and Place Names
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