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Latest NNI News

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Building Cultural Heritage Resources through Governance
September 30, 2019
Native Nations Institute and the Crow Canyon Archeological Center (CCAC) co-hosted the Building Native Nations: Native American Heritage and Governance Conference on August 6 - 8, 2019...
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NNI Short Course at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
September 30, 2019
In the wake of the #noDAPL movement and of the 2018 U.S. election, in which Native politics played a prominent role, Indigenous people, Native nations, and tribal governments should be more visible than ever in political science...
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Meet the New Indigenous Data Sovereignty Fellows and Scholars
September 30, 2019
The Native Nations Institute is pleased to welcome Cheryl Ellenwood, M.A. (Nez Perce) and Lydia Jennings (Pascua Yaqui and Huichol) as Doctoral Scholars and Ibrahim Garba, M.A., J.D., LL.M. as a Postdoctoral Fellow...
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Māori Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Jason Mika Joins NNI for the Fall Semester
September 30, 2019
The Native Nations Institute (NNI) is honored to host Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Jason Mika, a descendant of the Ngāi Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Kahungunu tribes of Aotearoa New Zealand...
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NNI Partners with UNC and UA Global to Facilitate Borderlands Experience
September 30, 2019
In 2018 the University of North Carolina (UNC) created the Cumpston Fellows First-Generation Student Initiative to support first-generation college students explore their identity and concepts of borders and borderlands...