Meet us in Temuco!
The NAISA Council is thrilled to announce our 2026 Annual Meeting, scheduled for July 22-24, 2026 in the city of Temuco in what is today called “southern Chile”–one of the epicenters of Wallmapu (Mapuche People’s territory).
Call for Proposals and further NAISA 2026 information will go out by the second week of October at the latest.
about naisa
The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) is an interdisciplinary, international membership-based organization comprised of scholars working in the fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies broadly defined.
NAISA began through exploratory meetings hosted by the University of Oklahoma in 2007 and by the University of Georgia in 2008, incorporated in 2009, and has since become the premier international and interdisciplinary professional organization for scholars, graduate students, independent researchers, and community members interested in all aspects of Indigenous Studies.
NAISA 2025 Oklahoma
NAISA 2025 was held on June 26-28, 2025, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
NAISA strives to make its annual meeting a safe space for all attendees. We expect everyone in attendance, whether as a NAISA member, guest, vendor, or otherwise to behave in a professional manner.
THE NAIS JOURNAL
NAIS publishes the best interdisciplinary scholarship in international Native American and Indigenous Studies. The journal provides an intellectually rigorous and ethically engaged forum for smart, provocative, and exciting scholarship while drawing on the extraordinary professional expertise of our ever-expanding membership in a process of double-anonymous peer review. NAIS provides a forum to place different kinds of research, intellectual traditions, and knowledge practices in conversation.