Describes the Native American Studies program at West Virginia University, focusing on the Native American heritage of Appalachia, the program's mission statement, the university and community environment, the beginnings of the program in 1992, courses offered, faculty and their activities, related students groups and mentoring, program support…

The Applied Indigenous Studies program at Northern Arizona University aims to prepare American Indian students to assume tribal leadership roles. Its location in the College of Ecosystem Science and Management emphasizes its land-oriented and applied focus. The program's development, core courses, and academic requirements for bachelors degrees…

Although founded in 1769 with a mission of educating Indian youth, Dartmouth College graduated only 19 American Indians by 1970. The Native American Studies program began in 1972 as part of a renewed commitment to recruit and support Indian students. Courses, faculty, visiting scholars, funding, internships, library holdings, and symposia are…

The American Indian Studies program at Arizona State University is an emerging program that aims to articulate, celebrate, and protect American Indian cultures; recruit and retain Indian students and faculty; and collaborate with Indian communities. Factors leading to the program's development and its organizational structure, curriculum,…

Begun in 1994, the Native American Studies program at the University of Oklahoma is an interdisciplinary B.A. program with a liberal arts orientation and strong emphasis on contemporary American Indian policy. Program strengths include the number and diversity of the faculty involved, the four Native languages taught, connections to tribal…

The American Indian Studies program at Cornell University resembles other area and ethnic studies programs academically but also has components concerned with American Indian student recruitment and support, agricultural extension and research activities in reservation communities, and publications. Thirteen courses are briefly described, as well…

Traces the development of the Institute of American Indian Studies at the University of South Dakota, which was founded in 1955 and which houses the South Dakota Oral History Center. Discusses the Institute's leadership, faculty members, research, publications, and conferences, and the impact of increasing numbers of American Indian students and…

Every component of traditional indigenous life is influenced by the natural world, but indigenous studies programs exclude the natural sciences. To wrest indigenous studies programs from the Eurocentric worldview of the typical American university, the natural sciences should be incorporated into what must necessarily be an integrated,…

Federally funded, Haskell Indian Nations University serves American Indian and Alaska Native students from federally recognized tribes and villages. Haskell's American Indian Studies baccalaureate program is an interdisciplinary, culturally relevant program that provides students with practical skills needed by tribes. The need for American Indian…

The Indigenous Nations Studies Program at the University of Kansas is a cross-disciplinary master's program promoting research relevant to the concerns of Indigenous communities and producing trained professionals capable of assuming tribal leadership and policy-making positions. Core courses, three study tracks, degree requirements, the…

The founding of the American Indian Studies program at San Francisco State University took place against a backdrop of the Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island and the demands of Indian students for more relevant coursework. Today the program connects students to the urban Indian community through service learning projects and is committed to…

At UCLA, the American Indian Studies Center's structure as an organized research unit allows a platform for many activities not normally within the purview of departments. The Center implements a holistic, Native view of research, policy, community engagement, and education; has a library and publications; and is a gathering place for American…

The development of a new Indigenous Nations Studies program at the University of Kansas is described. Success depended on a critical mass of Indigenous and non-Indigenous faculty and students that had a sense of political and social justice and understood the need for institutional change. The biggest challenge was countering the entrenched…

Identifies four groups with conflicting interests in indigenous studies programs and the nature of the conflicts. Proposes the formation of a pan-indigenous intellectual network. Describes the ideal indigenous studies program devoted to building a pan-indigenous infrastructure that indigenous nations would direct and use as a tool to strengthen…

In 1997, the University of Arizona was the first institution to offer a Ph.D. in American Indian Studies. This article profiles recent doctoral students in the program, lists the achievements of doctoral graduates and the program's faculty, and describes service and outreach activities to Arizona's tribal colleges and reservation communities. (SV)