2018 Speaker Series

Join CNAIS for a presentation on Brent Learned's latest exhibitions featuring the artist himself!

Come learn about the cross-media, hybrid studio work of Indigenous artist Gina Adams!

Eugene Joe is a Diné sand art painter from Shiprock, New Mexico. Eugene comes from a family of sand painters and has spent 50 years as an artist. His work reflects his Diné culture and includes portraits, landscapes, nature and traditional lifestyles. This event is co-sponsored with the Department of...

Arnold Clifford (Diné) is a Native scholar, field botanist, ethnobotanist, and geologist. From Beclahbito, New Mexico and the Carrizo Mountain Range, Clifford integrates his cultural teachings with his work. An associate editor for the Bolack San Juan Basin Flora Project, Clifford’s expertise is in flora of Navajo Nation and the...

Join us with a special talk by CNAIS Visiting Scholar Dr. Salma Monani, who will explore the material and decolonial dimensions of Indigenous cinema.

Joshua Lanakila Mangauil is a Native Hawaiian cultural practicioner, Mauna Kea Kia'i (Protector), and Founding Director of the Hawaiian Cultural Center of Hāmākua. Please join us for his presentation on March 15th, 2018 in Humanities 150 and 5:00pm. This event is generously co-sponsored by the American Indian Law Program

Native American communities qua communities have sought protections for sacred lands, practices, objects, and ancestral remains under the legal regime of religious freedom without marked success. While many have understood this as a failure of judicial understanding of the distinctive features of indigenous religions, I contend courts have failed to...