Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies

The three-year grant will fund three positions related to Native American Studies.

What is a Native American reservation? Maurice Crandall, Assistant Professor, discusses reservations in this podcast.

My name is Davina Two Bears and, I am Diné, Navajo, originally from Birdsprings, Arizona. My maternal clan is Tódích’íi’nii, Bitter Water, born for Táchii’nii, Red Running into the Water Clan; and my maternal grandfather’s clan is Tábąąhí, Edge Water, and my paternal grandfather’s clan is also Tódích’íi’nii.

On Sunday, June 11, graduates from the Class of 2017 participated in a reception after the annual blanketing ceremony.

The Dartmouth Pow-Wow serves as an opportunity for members of both the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities to observe, participate, and learn from a broad representation of Native American dances, music, and arts and crafts.

We invite the Dartmouth community and the public to join in the conversation with Jennifer Rose Denetdale (dine), Winona LaDuke (Ojibwe), Mililani Trask (Kanaka Oiwi), and Ellen Gabriel (Mohawk). 

President Phil Hanlon ’77 and Provost Carolyn Dever announced today that they have appointed N. Bruce Duthu ’80, a scholar of Native American law and policy, to be the next dean of the faculty of arts and sciences.

The Dartmouth sat down to chat with History and Native American studies professor Colin Calloway, who has written extensively on topics such as the history of Native Americans at Dartmouth and the Native American West prior to the expeditions of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. 

In a story about the creation of Native American English, or “the rez accent,” the magazine turns for comment to Kalina Newmark ’11 and Nacole Walker ’11, who authored a study about ethnic identity and language.

Augusta Terkildsen ’19 drew portraits of members of her tribe, the Oglala Sioux, who have joined the opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline. Terkildsen plans to spend part of her winter break at the protest site near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota.