We are on Monacan Land The University of Virginia occupies and derives benefit from the ancestral territory of the Monacan Indian Nation . We at NIRC honor the Monacan people and their contributions, past, present, and future. We are particularly grateful to the Monacan citizens who are working with...

Undergraduates can take 2 required courses and 4 electives to earn a Minor in Native American Indigenous Studies from the Department of American Studies. Requirements for the Minor can be found here. Program contact: Kasey Jernigan, kj2wz@virginia.edu . Assistant Professor of Anthropology & American...

Indigenous knowledge, practices, belief systems, and ways of being in the world move within and across humanistic, social scientific, and scientific divides. More than just a cross-disciplinary field, Indigenous Studies is a methodological framework that asks the fundamental question “Where are we?”...