IN OUR LATEST ISSUE ✨ Darcy Evans argues that Indigenous practices of eviction can serve as a method of territorial reclamation that challenges state claims to property and jurisdiction within unceded Indigenous homelands.

In our latest issue✨This paper follows student researchers’ journey of a‘o (teaching and learning) as they engaged in PAR to understand how community readiness is being developed beyond a set of standards, indicators, and desired outcomes into a process that develops ontological self-efficacy.

Welcome to the world, Issue 49:2! An incredible collection of such diverse essays just in time for the tail end of your summer reading. These 27 authors demonstrate the depth and breadth of Indigenous Studies. We are also pleased to present our newly formed Editorial Board.

Sneak Peek! In two weeks, new issue. We work diligently to cover a wide range of Indigenous communities, issues, approaches, and Native-centered concerns. Inclusivity in Indigenous Studies means every field, discipline, and even anti-disciplinarily. All without paywalls or subscriptions.

In our latest issue✨This Indigenous research embodies the history, dreams, and hopes of a group of people creating a sense of meaning, belonging, and place in the world by reclaiming and recultivating Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara varieties of corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, and watermelon.

✨Jennifer R. O’Neal (enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) highlights the power of transnational alliances and how foundational work of Indigenous activists fighting to bring awareness of Indigenous information rights paved the way for the contemporary work within repositories.

REMINDER - CALL FOR PAPERS✨ This special issue, Attending to Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences in Place, aims to bring together cross-disciplinary voices within Indigenous studies to establish place as the necessary starting point for Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences (IESS).

WELCOME✨Mark Minch-de Leon is a member of the Susanville Indian Rancheria and currently an Associate Professor of English at UC Riverside, where he co-directs the California Center for Native Nations (CCNN). In the Fall, he is joining the Film and Media Department at UC Berkeley.

James M. Hundley is a settler scholar and associate professor of anthropology at Rowan University in New Jersey. He theorizes the processes of securitization to highlight the surreptitious ways settler colonialism is perpetuated by removing “the Indigenous” as a geopolitical entity.

WELCOME✨ William Bauer is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and a professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. He served as the President of the Western History Association in the year 2024-2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS✨ This special issue, Attending to Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences in Place, aims to bring together cross-disciplinary voices within Indigenous studies to establish place as the necessary starting point for Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences (IESS).

WELCOME✨Sarah A. Whitt is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and faculty member at UC Irvine in the Global Studies and History departments. Her work centers on Indigenous experiences of institutionalization in Progressive Era settler facilities. She is currently working on her second book.

In our latest issue, Hāwea Apiata’s bilingual poem references the Māori concept of whakapapa, explaining the layers of connections between all the natural world. Whakapapa is a lens that allows us to look into both the past and future and to understand our relationship with the land and each other.

As the Editor in Chief, I rarely use this platform to editorialize. But this thread is timely and accurate. Please consider this valuable perspective, especially if you are a writer who expects to publish books OR ESSAYS in the upcoming years. - D Shorter bsky.app/profile/tric...

Tricia Dearborn@triciadearborn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

WELCOME✨Nazune Menka (Koyukon Athabaskan & Lumbee) to the Editorial Board!

WELCOME✨Amy Lonetree is a citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and her research focuses on Native American history, Indigenous photography, visual studies, public history, and museum studies.

In our latest issue 🔥 This article offers a conceptualization of “Fire Back” through rematriation to restore rights to the intentional use of Indigenous-led and -informed fire practices, highlighting kinship of people, fire, and planet and (2) advocating for cultural fire sovereignty.

Reminder — out now! Special Issue: “Indigenous Resurgence” focuses on how language is an essential component of Native power. This issue features more Indigenous authors than any before it. Cover Caption: © Crystal Worl, “Inua” (2016)

Just published! We are pleased to publish our next issue that has more Indigenous authors in one issue than any before. Thanks to our guest editors: M. J. DesRosier (Niitsitapi: Blackfeet, Gros Ventre) and Paul J. Guernsey (Settler/Greek/European descent). escholarship.org/uc/aicrj

Forthcoming! April 4, 2026 Special Issue: “Indigenous Resurgence” In honor of our fiftieth year of being a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, we are pleased to publish our next issue that has more Indigenous authors in one issue than any before.

Sneak Peek! Our next issue brings more authors (and more Indigenous authors!) together in one issue than ever before, focusing on “cultures connecting and collaborating at global scales to reassert their political sovereignty in ways that recover their precolonial levels of continental influence.”

REMINDER! Our latest issue guest edited by Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis, a descendant of First Nations and Métis people) focuses on reviving cultural practices, protecting Indigenous lands, and challenging systemic colonialism. Cover: @ Gil Scott (Diné), Within His Storms (2017)

In our latest issue, Rachelle Besaw, descendant member of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin and a US Navy veteran, explores the cruel and bloody history of anthropological and linguistic research perpetrated upon Indigenous nations, as well as the moral and ethical implications of these actions.

In our latest issue, Kendall Lovely, member of the Navajo Nation and PhD candidate in History at UCSB, traces historical developments in the American Southwest alongside the professionalization of archeological pursuits.

In our latest issue, Chief Caleen Sisk (Winnemem Wintu) and Marc Dadigan affirm the importance of recognizing that salmon are sentient bearers of ecological wisdom who must be followed rather than controlled and that hatcheries cannot replace the protection of riverine habitat.

In our latest issue, Kristi Leora Gansworth, Anishnabe scholar, examines embodied kinship as a way to envision and articulate a thriving future of embodied interconnection & healing for current & future generations. Gansworth is an assistant professor in Native American studies at Vassar College.

In our latest issue, Jackson Pind and Jack Hoggarth write about mound-builders theory and the Hopewell tradition in context of Anishinaabeg burial and death practices and advocate for inclusive and respectful archaeological approaches that acknowledge Anishinaabeg cultural heritage.

In our latest issue, Colin Elder, founder and director of Elder Archaeology, CIC, writes about Anishinaabeg’s Histories. Elder is a professional archaeologist and historian and explores the history and people of this region through Elder Archaeology, which leads historic, archaeology-based programs.

Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis), guest editor of our lastest issue, is a two-time awardee of a Canada Research Chair Tier II in Indigenous History, Healing, & Reconciliation. With our editor-in-chief, Steeves worked with a collection of authors to set a new course for Indigenous-centric research.

JUST PUBLISHED! Our December issue guest edited by Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis, a descendant of First Nations and Métis people) focuses on reviving cultural practices, protecting Indigenous lands, and challenging systemic colonialism. Cover: @ Gil Scott (Diné), Within His Storms (2017)