Special Election!

This year we have a Special Election for the 2013-2014 President and 2014-2015 Past President. Please be sure to vote here.

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Online users

  • Joe L Graham PhD
  • Chihiro Sakihara
  • Karen Sause

Vote!

Voting opens May 9, 2010 at midnight CST (North America) and closes on May 23 at 11:59pm CST (North America)
Election Candidates and Ballots

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

APRIL 25 -- MAY 17 MEMBERS MAY VOTE for PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Click on "Prizes" in the list on the left-hand side of the Home Page. Links will appear to vote on Best 1st Book (publ. 2011), Best Subsequent Book (2011), and Most Thought Provoking Article (2011). To sign up as a Member, click on Membership to the left. Voting access is synchronized to membership every Tuesday & Friday.

MEMBERSHIP If you are having difficulty signing up for membership with an out-of-US credit card Univ. of Minnesota Press advises: please be sure that the address and phone number entered in the "Billing Address" matches the address and phone number associated with the credit card. The UMP payment system is very particular about having a precise match between the billing address you provide to the address associated with the credit card. To enter the address you wish to use for your NAISA membership, use the space lower down on the form for "shipping or correspondence address." For help, contact Amy Smith at the Press at smith494@umn.edu or 612-627-1940.

Welcome to the website home of NAISA! If you are a MEMBER you may post to the blog or post a job listing: go the far top right-hand corner of the Home Page and click on "Log In." Once you are logged in: To create a blog, scroll down to the bottom of the right-hand column, and click on Blog. To post a job, scroll down to the bottom of the right-hand column, click on Create Content, and then Create Job Posting.

FEB 25, 2013: The PRELIMINARY PROGRAM for the 2013 meeting is posted to the U of Saskatchewan website: go to http://naisa.usask.ca/program/index.php

The 2013 annual meeting will be held June 13-15, hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.

If you are not a member, we encourage you to sign up and join more than 800 supporters and practitioners of Native American & Indigenous Studies. Click on "Membership" on the list of primary links to the left.

First gathered in 2007 and incorporated in 2009, NAISA is the premiere international and interdisciplinary professional gathering for scholars, researchers, and community members interested in Indigenous Studies. Our annual meetings have grown from about 350 attendees at the first gathering in 2007, hosted by the University of Oklahoma and Robert Warrior; to 850+ at the 2012 meeting hosted at Mohegan Sun by the New England Host Committee.

K. Tsianina Lomawaima, President 2012-2013

Submitted by K Tsianina Lomawaima on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 11:51

4.25 thru 5. 17 VOTE for Publications Prizes

APRIL 25 -- MAY 17 MEMBERS MAY VOTE for PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Click on "Prizes" in the list on the left-hand side of the naisa.org Home Page. Links will appear to vote on Best 1st Book (publ. 2011), Best Subsequent Book (2011), and Most Thought Provoking Article (2011). To sign up as a Member, click on "Membership" on the left-hand side of the naisa.org Home Page. It will take 2-3 days for your voting eligibility to be authorized.

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Submitted by K Tsianina Lomawaima on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 21:44

Call for Submissions for Journal NAIS is Now Open!

Native American and Indigenous Studies, the official journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, invites submissions of original manuscripts for publication in its inaugural volume. NAIS is a peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Manuscript submission guidelines can be found here: http://www.upress.umn.edu/information/author-resources-1/manuscript-guid...

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Submitted by warrior on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 14:24

NAIS Call for Reviews

Native American and Indigenous Studies

Call for reviews

Native American and Indigenous Studies invites reviews of books and other materials on topics relevant to our field for publication in the journal.

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Posting to naisa.org

If you have a CFP, situation alert, or other notice to post, you can do so on the NAISA blog. Anyone can read the blog, but only members who have authenticated their user accounts can post entries or make comments.

If posting a job announcement, please click on Create Content on the menu in the right column and create a job posting. Only NAISA members can post job announcements. If you have a job announcement but are not a member, please ask a NAISA member to help.

Membership & Voting

May 13, 2013: TROUBLE VOTING? The website is updated to give voting access to new members daily: but there is a LAG TIME (up to 24 hours) AND it synchronizes members with access to use this website by email address.
NEW MEMBER: use email address used to sign up as member to set up NAISA.org user account. If you use different email addresses to sign up as member and to set up user account on naisa.org you will not be recognized.
RENEWAL MEMBER: If your email address has changed since you first set up your naisa.org user account, the naisa.org system will create a new user account with the new email address that you most recently used to renew membership at the U of MN Press. To vote, please use the newest U of MN Press/member email address. To obtain your password for voting go to: http://naisa.org/user/password

CONTACT support@naisa.org or Tsianina Lomawaima: lomawaim@email.arizona.edu or cell 520-235-0498

Register for 2013!

The Registration page for the 2013 annual meeting is now LIVE! GO to http://naisa.usask.ca/
If you are on the Program, you must be a NAISA member.

2013 Call for Applications: $$ to Attend Annual Meeting

Feb 27, 2013: Funds are available to assist members accepted to the 2013 Program who need financial assistance to attend the meeting. Click here to access instructions and guidelines on how to apply for the 2013 meeting in Saskatoon.

Selection of Editor and Editorial Board Members

Inaugural co-editors for the NAIS Journal are Professors Jean O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe, University of Minnesota) and Robert Warrior (Osage, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Dec. 3, 2012.

March 13, 2012: The Inaugural Editorial Board has been appointed by NAISA Council and the journal Co-Editors: click on "Journal" in the Primary Links on the left-hand side of this page to see the list!