Native American Studies UC Davis

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Still looking for a winter 2021 NAS course? Enroll in NAS 125, Performance and Culture Among Native Americans. CRN 45634. This class introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of public expressive forms among Native Americans. It looks at music, dances, rituals, and dramas from throughout the Americas in their social and cultural contexts. Students take an active role by participating in class discussions about the readings and films throughout the first part of the course and by working on their own projects from the start and presenting them to the class during the second part of the class.

It's #GivingTuesday. Consider gifting to UC Davis Native American Studies UC Davis to support our degree majors/minors and faculty projects. Follow the link to our "giving" page to learn more about the department, supporting the Native Studies Graduate Student Association, The Native American Language Center, C.N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis and the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas. Happy Giving / Gifting! https://nas.ucdavis.edu/giving

Enroll today !! NAS 134: Race, Culture, and Nation will be offered winter 2021 with Professor Jessica Bissett Perea. "This course addresses the density of Indigeneity in the Americas via complex webs of racial, cultural and national identities and relationalities. Students will study aspects of citizenship, belonging, mixed descent, diaspora, contemporary movements of cultural resurgence, political sovereignty and self-determination." GE credits: SocSci|ACGH, DD, SS, WE.W (W.)

Toppling Settler Statues: Breaking Down Colonial Imagery. A conversation with UCD NAS alumni Dr. Vanessa Esquivido - Assistant Professor at Chico State University! November 12 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Register here: https://csuchico.zoom.us//tJcsf-upqD8tH9JlCHrtajNZEf2pNGoa

Presentation tomorrow, featuring UCD NAS alumni Dr. Angel Hinzo! Repost from The Missouri Humanities Council: Join us for our inaugural Native Historian Symposium The Future of the Past: The Next Generation of Native Historians, with: Dr. Jennifer Denetdale "Photographs of DinéThe People: Visual Representations of Lived History" Dr. John Little Spinning Records: Building a Contemporary Indigenous Music Archive... Dr. Angel Hinzo "Restoring Native Histories and Navigating Settler Archives" Mike Barthelemy, PhD Candidate "Under the Sunflower Planting Moon: Nostalgia, Purpose and Belonging in the Confluence Region and Beyond." Indigenous Resurgence is our stories as we keep, live, and breathe them now, in a good way. Register on zoom or join us on FB live! https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_GJMI5q2kQKWgr-AMW7OrTQ