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Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, [1] or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. [2]
Henrietta Verle Mann (Southern Cheyenne, b. 1934) is a Native American academic and activist. She was one of the designers of the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Montana and Haskell Indian Nations University's Native American studies programs.
In addition, Native American activism has led major universities across the country to establish Native American studies programs and departments, increasing awareness of the strengths of Indian cultures, providing opportunities for academics, and deepening research on history and cultures in the United States. Native Americans have entered ...
Native American women were at risk for rape whether they were enslaved or not; during the early colonial years, settlers were disproportionately male. They turned to Native women for sexual relationships. [38] Both Native American and African enslaved women suffered rape and sexual harassment by male slaveholders and other white men. [38]
The Institute of Native American Studies (INAS) was founded in 2004 at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, to provide programming, instruction, and research support in Native American Studies.
Smith was born to Helen Jean Wilkinson and Donald R. Smith [3] in San Francisco, and grew up in Southern California. [8] She has one sister, Justine Smith. [3] Although her family is descended primarily from British and Scandinavian immigrants to the US, like some white Americans, she and her sister grew up hearing stories about the possibility of a distant Native American ancestor.
Jennifer Nez Denetdale is a professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches courses in Native American Studies with an emphasis on race, class, and gender. [2] She is the director of the University of New Mexico's Institute for American Research. [ 3 ]
William N. Fenton, American scholar, known for his extensive studies of Iroquois history and culture. Arthur C. Parker, archaeologist, historian, noted authority on Native American culture; Elisabeth Tooker—Anthropologist and a leading historian on the Iroquois Indian nations in the United States