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Nancy ParezoProfessor of American Indian Studies & Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona Nancy Parezo will present the 36th Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture on "The Indian Fashion Show, Fighting Cultural ...

Award winning documentary film, "Return of the Horse," by Sharón Eliashar and Leo Hubbard, will be shown on Thursday, Jan. 17 from 6 - 8:30 p.m. in the Hibben Center. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. "We are ...

Ted Jojola, Distinguished Professor, University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, presents the 2012 Richard W. Etulatin Lecture, "Indigenous Realities: Planning for the Next Millennium," Thursday, Nov. 8, at 5:30 p.m. in the George Pearl ...

Judit Kadar, a visiting Fulbright fellow of American Studies at Eszterházy College in Eger, Hungary, is offering an eight week course for the second half of the fall semester. The course, "Going Indian/Native? Cultural Manifestations of In-Between-ness," ...

In 2009, Gerald Vizenor, UNM Distinguished Professor of American Studies, was both a delegate and principal author of the first constitution to be ratified by a native group. The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives of Minnesota ratified their new ...

The University of New Mexico's College of Nursing hosts a Qualitative Cafe Brown bag Thursday, April 12, from noon-1 p.m., room 252 in the College of Nursing. Speaker Nancy M. Mithlo, professor in the Department of Art History and American Indian Studies ...

Jennifer Nez Denetdale grew up in Tohatchi, N.M., a Navajo community 25 miles north of Gallup. She and her three sisters and one brother never missed school, she said, because her father insisted they become educated. "We always had books in our home. ...

Andrew Offenburger, the Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar, presents, "When the American West Turned South: Development and Dispossession in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands," Wednesday, Oct. 26 at noon in the Waters Room in the UNM Zimmerman ...

In 2010 UNM joined the Newberry Library Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS). Since then, Cathleen Cahill, assistant professor of history, and Jennifer Nez Denetdale, associate professor of American studies, have been collaborating with other ...

The University of New Mexico's Native American student organization, the Native American Studies Indigenous Research Group (NASIRG), hosts Indigenous Day on Monday Oct. 10. Indigenous day is a protest and alternative to Columbus Day that emphasizes ...