Events
Calling all graduating Native students! Join us in celebrating your achievements at Native Graduation on Saturday, May 2 at Koenig Alumni House (6:00 - 8:00 PM)*. Don’t miss this special event honoring your journey and success.
Indigenous Languages and Pedagogy in Post-Secondary Contexts, a FREE one-day conference hosted by CNAIS on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
This gathering will focus on how to best deliver Indigenous language instruction for post-secondary learners, with primary attention to college and university contexts and secondary consideration of adult learning more broadly.
Event on Monday, February 16, 2026 @ 3:30 - 5:30 pm in Hellems N380. A reception will follow event. Event Description: Drawing on new research on Ancient Maya hand signs, Dr. Sandoval shows that some calendar dates were expressed not in hieroglyphs but through depicted hand gestures in monumental art-gestures that encode calendrical cycles and link local history to cosmology.
Max Mueller and Forrest Cuch discuss Max’s recent book Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West. Event Date: February 4, 2026 5:00-6:30 pm @ ENVD 134 (1060 18th Street) Environmental Design Building
The 150th anniversary of the University of Colorado presents a timely opportunity to reflect on our own origins, legacies and obligations that are too little known. This panel brings together three scholars whose work illuminates different dimensions of this history and its implications for higher education today. Event Date: January 29, 2026 @ 5:00 - 6:15 pm
Art Coulson, a Native author, will discuss the challenges of confronting stereotypes and stereotypical expectations about Native peoples and Native authors in his work, and how he has evolved as a writer in response to these issues. He will also share how other authors and their works have illustrated a path through these challenges. Event on Wed, January 28, 2026 @ 3:00 -4:00 pm @ Abrams Lounge 3rd Floor C4C
The CU Boulder Fall 2024 Powwow In Review
The City of Boulder extends its gratitude to American Indian Tribal Nations for the continuing opportunity to listen and learn from them and welcomes the public and the media to a unique community event developed in partnership with Tribal
Dr. Michael L. Blakey Tuesday, March 12 at 5:00pm Eaton Humanities, Humanities 1B50 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309 National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology, Africana Studies, and American Studies Director of
CELEBRATING THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAS SOUTH-NORTH/NORTH-SOUTH TRANSHEMISPHERIC DIALOGUES Hosted by the CU Boulder Latin American & Latinx Studies Center The 3rd Annual Celebrating the Indigenous Americas will be a week of virtual and in-