Next month, Associate Professor and Chair of Native American Studies Melanie Taylor and her husband, Alan Taylor, a lecturer in writing, will pack up their house in New London, N.H., and move with their 2-year old son, Abel, into a large Victorian house on North Park Street—part of the College’s new house communities system.

Vivian Korthuis ’86 has been named the first woman CEO of the Association of Village Council Presidents, made up of 56 tribes in 48 villages throughout Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, reports Alaska Dispatch News.

N. Bruce Duthu ’80, the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, will be the next Frank. J. Guarini Associate Dean for International Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs. He succeeds Lynn Higgins, the Edward Tuck Professor of French and a professor of comparative literature, of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and of film and media studies. She has held the office since 2011.

JoRee LaFrance ’17, from Crow Agency, Montana, and Helen Thomas ’18, from Grand Forks, N.D., have been awarded 2016 scholarships from the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation.

Growing up on a ranch on the Crow reservation in Montana, surrounded by family—her mother, father, twin sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents—JoRee LaFrance ’17 knows the power of storytelling.

Melanie Chaplier, PhD, is a Belgian Anthropologist who joined NAS as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow for the academic year 2015-2016

Professor Nick Reo and Dartmouth students are designing backcountry ski/snowboard trails that are as low impact on the forest and wildlife as possible and are monitoring for unintended ecological impacts.

Native American Studies’ inaugural Off-Campus Program in Santa Fe, New Mexico launched in September 2015. The program is based at the Institute of American Indian Art....

Farina King, specializing in twentieth-century Native American Studies, is the 2015-2016 Eastman Fellow at the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College.