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UB launches SUNY’s first Indigenous studies major

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Department of Indigenous Studies in the University at Buffalo’s College of Arts and Sciences continues to build upon the momentum of its initial Mellon Foundation grant funding, ...

New framework helps climate modelers integrate Indigenous community input into simulations

Advanced computer models can quantify the impacts of climate change and other environmental challenges, providing deep ...
American Libraries

Indigenous Studies Librarianship and Collections

Casting a light on academic library support for indigenous studies scholars and the First Nations being studied, three Canadian university librarians shared their findings from an Ithaka S & R project ...
Mongabay

Three new studies on Indigenous conservation for International Indigenous Peoples Day

Indigenous peoples and local communities have nuanced, in-depth knowledge of climate change impacts that needs to be recognized by scientists and policy-makers, according to researchers. Industrial ...
unr.edu

Minor in Indigenous studies

An interdisciplinary minor in Indigenous studies helps you understand the cultures, knowledges, histories and experiences of Indigenous peoples in the Americas and around the globe. In the Indigenous ...
Newsday

Stony Brook University to offer new minor in Native American and Indigenous Peoples Studies

Stony Brook University, recognizing the importance of "the voices of Indigenous Peoples" in understanding the nation's past, present and future, is seeking to debut a Native American and Indigenous ...

Giant clams thrive with Indigenous management in American Sāmoa

A new study led by researchers at UH Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) ToBo Lab has revealed that giant clam ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

A new Dartmouth study examines how to include Indigenous data in environmental research

Environmental scientists are gathering new data about our planet every day. It’s often sampled or collected from land stewarded by Indigenous people, and a new study out of Dartmouth College examines ...
PBS

Indigenous groups in the American West lived alongside horses by the early 1600s, study finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — The horse is symbolic of the American West, but when and how domesticated horses first reached the region has long been a matter of historical debate. A new analysis of horse bones ...

Indigenous infants are born with more diverse gut bacteria than urban-born babies, study finds

Despite facing some of the highest rates of chronic disease later in life, a new study has found remote First Nations Australians are born with a natural health advantage—a rich and diverse gut ...
Mongabay

Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

A study published today in Global Environmental Change shows that the approval of Brazil’s Bill 191 allowing mining on Indigenous land could be detrimental to up to 43 uncontacted Indigenous groups.
Agencia EFE

Indigenous communities urge Bolivia to require environmental studies for lithium projects

Indigenous communities in Bolivia, home to the country’s largest lithium reserves, are calling on the government to require ...