American Indian and Indigenous Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

05/10/2025

AIIS celebrates the 2025 graduates and especially the newly minted Dr. Frankie Bauer! 

05/08/2025

AIIS celebrates this year's majors and minors, who will be honored at the American UNC American Indian Center's Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 8, 2025 at the Friday Center!

05/08/2025

AIIS celebrates Professor Kathleen DuVal, whose Native Nations: A Millennium in North America has won a Pulitzer Prize!

Kathleen DuVal, a historian in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, has received a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America."

04/22/2025

Congratulations to Bella Garcia on receiving the AIC's Faith Danielle Hedgepeth Award!

Congratulations to Bella Garcia, the recipient of the 2024-25 Faith Danielle Hedgepeth Award from the UNC American Indian Center. 🎉

The award recognizes a Tar Heel who positively impacts outside the classroom though extracurricular engagement.

Garcia, a sophomore who is majoring in dramatic art and American Indian and Indigenous studies, said receiving the award is "extremely meaningful" to her.

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American Indian and Indigenous Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

04/22/2025

Check out the exciting AIIS courses for Fall 2025!

04/22/2025

Congratulations to Frankie Bauer (Choctaw Nation), who successfully defended his outstanding dissertation under the direction of Dr. Kathleen DuVal and Dr. Dan Cobb this month. Frankie will be joining the faculty at Cal State Fullerton this fall!

04/22/2025

Don't miss this exciting event sponsored by the RLA taking place tomorrow (Wednesday), April 23! Details below!

04/22/2025

Congratulations to AIIS majors and minors!

The American Indian Center Commencement Ceremony is May 8th, 2025. Please self-register now, we can’t wait to see you!

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04/22/2025

Congrats to UNC AIIS Alumn A.C. Locklear!

The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) is proud to announce that its Board of Directors has selected A.C. Locklear, Lumbee Nation, as the organization’s permanent Chief Executive Officer. Over the […]

04/03/2025

Join us this afternoon (Thursday, April 3) for the rescheduled Elder-In-Residence lecture by Dr. Joey Bell. It will take place at 5:00 p.m. in Room 1001 Kerr Hall.

Every spring, the American Indian Center brings to campus a well-respected nationally prominent American Indian elder to foster cultural, academic, social, and spiritual support for Carolina students as well as to enrich the campus community. Selected elders have come from … Read more

03/28/2025

Don't miss the CIC Powwow this Saturday, March 29! Details below!

11/14/2024

Here's a call for proposals for a workshop devoted to International Perspectives on Indigenous Transnational Experiences that Professor Dan Cobb will be co-convening with Dr. Lucie Kyrova at Charles University in Prague this coming May. Please share this opportunity widely through their networks!