Decolonizing the Academic Library: Examining the Successful Indigenization of UBC and UNM’s Library Services
IRes Library | Indigenous Resilience Center (IRes)
The Indian Child Welfare Act Survives for Now
This article provides an overview of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a federal law enacted in 1978 to protect Native American children, families, and tribe
Preserving U.S. Indigenous Government Websites: From Directory to Digital Archive | The Signal
As a 2025 Junior Fellow, Maggie Jones helped build the United States Indigenous Government Websites Web Archive with the guidance of her mentor, Giselle Aviles. In this interview, they describe how the collection developed from a list of over 500 tribes and what that process taught them about web archiving. They also share examples of how Indigenous government websites often extend beyond administrative functions to document culture, history, language, and community life.
University Libraries archivist involved in new standards for Indigenous knowledge in archival collections
Megan K. Friedel, assistant professor and lead archivist of University Libraries, discusses her involvement in the Society of American Archivists Archival
"The Seed is the Law": Creating New Governance Frameworks for Indigenous Heirloom Seeds and Traditional Knowledge | UCLA Law Review
Abstract The United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held a diplomatic conference in May 2024 where participants adopted a historic n ...
This book traces the history of the U.S. government’s control of Indigenous peoples
Keith Richotte models his narrative on the Native tradition of the trickster story — parables of creation and change where an unreliable narrator dupes the listener into reshaping their perception of reality.
Writing About Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Legal Context: An Interview with Kelti McGloin - Slaw
This month I interviewed Kelti McGloin, our brilliant Library Intern at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, about the development of her style guide, Best Practices for Writing About Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Legal Context: An Evolving Style Guide for the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Share a bit about your background […]
Bill Paul, ABA's first Native American president, dies at 94
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
Native American Veterans: Acknowledging Their Service, Recognizing Their Needs, and Learning from Their Tribal Restorative Tradition
pspanNative Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives) have a long tradition of service in the U.S. military, dating back to the Revolutionary War. In
The Daily — Postsecondary students in Canada, by Indigenous identity and racialized group, 2014 to 2022
Today, Statistics Canada is releasing data on students from Canadian colleges and universities (cohorts of 2014 to 2022) by Indigenous identity and racialized group. This release includes information on the number of Canadian new students, enrolled students and graduates by Indigenous identity and racialized group, educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender. Data are available at the national, provincial and territorial levels.
Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty
When Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, set out to earn her doctorate in tribal health 15 years ago, she focused her research on tribal cultural and health programs within six tribes. She needed vital statistics data, such as birth and death rates, for each of them. But […]
UofA Indigenous students oppose cultural center restructuring, termination of director
Native students at University of Arizona are worried after their cultural group leader was fired and replaced with someone they don't trust.
New 22nd Edition of The Bluebook Adds Tribal Law Citation Rules
The latest edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is hot off the presses. Although this 22nd edition retains the same basic approach to legal citation, there are some notable changes, including one that …
Native American Veterans: Acknowledging Their Service, Recognizing Their Needs, and Learning from Their Tribal Restorative Tradition
pspanNative Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives) have a long tradition of service in the U.S. military, dating back to the Revolutionary War. In
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Resources - Native Governance Center
Lacking a Demonstrable Source of Authority
On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands.
Tribal Law and Policy Institute Promising Strategies: Tribal–State Court Relations
Beyond a Land Acknowledgement | Conference on Academ
The CALM Land Acknowledgement statement and ongoing work.
University of Arizona Land Grant History
Tracking the History of Land-Grant Enrichment at the University of Arizona
Beyond territorial acknowledgments
Earlier this year, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) released a Territorial Acknowledgment Guide.[1] The territorial acknowledgements found in this guide vary from fairly short…
Honoring Native Peoples and Lands | UO Libraries
Guide to Acknowledging First Peoples & Traditional Territory
The following document offers the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recommended territorial acknowledgement for institutions where our members work, organized by province. While most
Guidelines and Uses for CCA Land Acknowledgment - CCA Portal
California College of the Arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. Benefitting from its San Francisco Bay Area location, the college prepares students for lifelong creative work by cultivating innovation, community engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.
Positionality statement and land acknowledgement workshop | SFU Library
During the summer of 2019, Library staff members from various divisions collaborated on a reading circle around Indigenizing library instruction. This informal group continued into the fall of 2019, when we read sources focused more on politics prior to the federal election. The time and space offered participants a place to examine their practices and knowledge in a way that was supportive and safe. Based on the feedback, more informal learning and sharing was desired. One topic that was strongly requested was land acknowledgements, and how to authentically deliver them. Out of all this, the Decolonizing the Library Interest Group (DIG) was formed in late fall of 2019.
Land Acknowledgment Resources: Native American and Indigenous Initiatives - Northwestern University
Land Acknowledgment Resources
Report: “Arizona State University Library Acknowledges the 22 Native Nations that Have Inhabited This Land For Centuries”
From ASU Library: “The ASU Library acknowledges the 22 Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries.” Thus begins the Arizona State University Library’s first Indigenous land acknowledgement – a five-sentence, 116-word statement about the place that the library and the university have inhabited for more than a century. “The statement represents the ASU Library’s intentions […]
NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: Impact Report 2023
Our Impact Report captures some of the highlights and significant achievements of our work, providing a glimpse into the comprehensive
impact we are making. We are proud of the accomplishments featured, knowing they reflect only a portion of the full scope of our efforts.