Native Bulldogs

Many of our Native Students have been featured in University publications and Aya's is the most recent! Check it out, especially all you prospective students to see what it is like to be a Native Student at Redlands!

Kyle. T. Mays (he/him), Ph.D., is an Black and Saginaw Chippewa scholar of Afro-Indigenous Studies, urban studies, and Indigenous popular culture. He is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and the Department of History at UCLA. He is the author of Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America (SUNY Press, 2018), and the forthcoming, An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (Beacon Press, November 2021) and City of Dispossessions: African Americans, Indigenous Peoples, and the Creation of Modern Detroit(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). He has written for numerous public venues including The Washington Post and the iconic Hip Hop magazine, The Source.

Dr. Kyle Mays will be speaking at 6pm tonight on Afro-Indigeneity. See you all who have RSVP'd in a few, whether you are watching via FB stream or joining us on the zoom!

Check out this play by Sophia Madrigal, one of the co-creators of Menil's Heart!

Join us for a lecture on Native Hawaiian Language Revitalization with Ku'ulei Kanahele!

We are proud to support the work of high achieving Native youth like Isabella Madrigal, who is from one of our own local tribal nations - the Cahuilla! Good luck starting at Harvard this semester!