Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

American Indian Studies

American Indian Studies is an interdisciplinary program that offers undergraduate and graduate courses across areas such as Indigenous film and new media, gender and sexuality, Latinx Indigenous migrations, Indigenous women writers of the Midwest, language reclamation and vitalization, and decolonizing methodologies.

AIS Website

Native American House

Native American House (NAH) provides support and programming for Native students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition to empowering students and prompting a sense of belonging, NAH supports students through engagement, academic support, and advocacy.

NAH Website

NAGPRA Office

The NAGPRA Office at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was established in 2020 to ensure campus-wide NAGPRA compliance. The office facilitates consultation with tribal communities and lineal descendants to repatriate Ancestors, as well funerary and sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony.

NAGPRA Office Website

Indigenous Pathways Program

The Indigenous Pathways Program brings Native high school students to the UIUC campus to learn about university life and opportunities. Students stay overnight on campus, meet with mentors, and explore campus programs and activities. The program is open to students from any Native nation. 

IPP Website

SACNAS and Friends UIUC Chapter

The UIUC’s student chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicano/Hispanic and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS) and Friends promotes diversity in STEM.

SACNAS and Friends Website

Ānako Indigenous Research Institute
Carleton University

Center for American Indian Research and Studies
University of Southern Mississippi

Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
American Philosophical Society Library and Museum

Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
Northwestern University

Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Indigenous Futures Institute
University of California San Diego

Indigenous Research Center
Salish Kootenai College

New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence

Native Nations Institute
University of Arizona

Sealaska Heritage Institute

Indigenizing Pharmacogenomics and Biomedical Research

Dr. Katrina Claw

Fermented seal flippers and growing an Indigenous approach to science

Dr. Aviâja Lyberth Hauptmann

Editing Islands: Indigenous governance of gene drives in the Pacific

Dr. Riley Taitingfong

Big Data Survivance: IDSov, Necropolitics, and the Daily Genocides

Joseph M. Yracheta