2025 NCAIS Graduate Student Conference

Chair: Kai Pyle, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Robin Olive Little Jackson, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

The Problem of Sharing in Indigenous Culture: Museums and Indigenous Knowledge

Isabelle Elliott, Oklahoma State University

Desecration, Marginalization, and Commodification: The Army Medical Museum’s Collection of Native American Remains in the 1870s

Hayley Maritza Serpa, Yale University

Engendering Indigenous Minds: Anthropology, Neuroscience, and Population Making in Early Twentieth Century Peru

Chair: Stephanie Lumsden, University of California – Davis

James Chalmers, University of Manitoba

Gii-waawiindamawaawag Anishinaabeg (The Anishinaabeg were promised it) Examining Anishinaabeg Treaties Through Anishinaabemowin

Vivan Nash, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Text-based language reclamation in Ojibwe

Fiona Slota, University of Winnipeg

Restoring Indigenous languages in the healthcare environment will keep Shared Memories Alive and Maintain Cultural Unity

Chair: Kallie Kosc, Oklahoma State University

Mahmut Polat, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

From Istanbul to Morris, Minnesota: A Comparative History of Boarding Schools

Nathan Tanner, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

From "Boarding Care" to "Student Placement": Mormons' Transcontinental and Transnational Indigenous Child (Re)Education Project, 1954-1972

Teagan Dreyer, Oklahoma State University

Relocated Education: Native American Educational Experiences in Rural Oklahoma and Urban Texas

Nyche Andrew, Yale University

Federal Indian Boarding Schools in Alaska: Network of Collusion and Resource Extraction

Chair: Kasey Keeler, University of Wisconsin – Madison

John Mollet, Yale University

The Most Important Indian of The Twentieth Century: Hank Adams and American Indian Activism from 1963 to 1974

Andrea Ho, Yale University

Fighting for Indigenous Freedoms Behind Bars: The Untold History of New Mexico State Penitentiary's Indian Cultural Club

Christopher Getowicz, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

Education Research as Dispossession: Arthur Harkin, the TCCP, and Unethical Settler Research at the University of Minnesota in the 1960’s

Joseph Ukockis, University of New Mexico

Mescalero Place Names, Colonial Cartography: The Case of Gallinas Peak, New Mexico

Chair: Meaghan Tusler, University of Chicago

Laurel Grimes, University of Oklahoma

Imag(in)ing the Feminine: Women’s Portraiture as Expressions of Indigeneity

Mariana Gutierrez Lowe, Northwestern University

Indigenous Archives: Motherwork, Carework, and Futurity in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead

Taa Machiria Angelina Salazar, Yale University

Legacies of (Re)production and Destruction: Native Motherhood and White Motherhood in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God

Chair: A.B. Wilkinson, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

Brian Yang, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

Refusal and Self-Fashioning: Siberian Indigenous Writers in the Late Soviet Union

Kabl Wilkerson, Harvard University

Imperial Reform and the Reorganization Era: Reevaluating Oklahoma's "Indian New Deal"

Haylee Swiger, University of Washington

Blood Quantum’s Impact on Tribal Belonging

Natalie Jones Kerwin, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Voting Behavior and Access Among Native Americans in the 21st Century General Elections

Chair: Farina King, University of Oklahoma

Kayla Erickson, Oklahoma State University

Seneca Engagement with the Indian Civilization Fund Act's Mission Schools

Analiesa Delgado, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

Land, Labor, and Loss: California’s Boarding School Histories at Fort Bidwell and Greenville

Katie Ward, Michigan State University

Indigenous Teachers' Confidence through Grow-Your-Own Teacher Education

Bailey Nutter, Oklahoma State University

Portrayals of Indigenous Peoples in Lonesome Dove

Chair: Jennifer Denetdale, University of New Mexico

Charlene Carruthers, Northwestern University

Black Placemaking and the Settler Colonial Project in Indian Territory, the United States, and Liberia

Ian Hughes, Yale University

Playing Ball: Classic Period Hohokam-Mesoamerican Interaction

David Kerry, Yale University

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Amy Swanson King, University of Washington

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Chair: Jean M. O’Brien, University of Minnesota

David Morales, University of California - Davis

Good Friday at San Ildefonso: Performing Tewa Pueblo-Nuevomexicano Relations

Benjamin Haws, Oklahoma State University

International Indiana - Diplomatic Relations and the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne

Heather Menefee, Northwestern University

From “Loyal” to “Legitimate”: Racial Definitions of Political Identity during Dakota Tribal Reorganization, 1886-1999

Jack Nestor, University of Manitoba

“Contrary to the Rules of the Department”: The Dismissal of Indian Agents for the Obstruction of Canadian Indian Policy in Treaties 4 and 6, 1885-1911

Chair: Adam Gaudry, University of Alberta

Kemeyawi Wahpepah, Harvard University

“We want people to understand": Native and Indigenous experiences of misrecognition on an elite college campus

Daniela Tovar, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagging Destinies: The Surveillance Identity Pipeline through the lenses of The Wisconsin Home Language Survey

Jackie Dormer, University of Winnipeg

Reconciling the Financial Burden of Language Revitalization in Canada

Chair: Tarren Andrews, Yale University

Cheyenne Travioli, University of Michigan

Seeking Hope in Reclamation and Wild Strawberry Patches: Michigan’s Mt. Pleasant American Indian Boarding School

Jonathan Meadows, University of Oklahoma

Preserving Sacred Spaces

Thomas Klemm, University of Michigan

Blood and Soil Liberalism

Chair: Josh Reid, University of Washington

Julia Kopesky, University of Chicago

Recovering Michel Renville's Dakota Stories

Makamae Sniffen, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Ka Leo Akaaka o ka Lehulehu o ke Koho Pāloka 1874: The Distinct Voices of the 1874 Election

Lindsey Willow Smith, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Native Sun: Shining light on women and newspaper’s role in identity making and maintaining in midcentury Detroit

Māhea Ahia, Yale University

Shapeshifting Hawaiian Biography: Life and Afterlives of Kihawahine

Chair: Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern University

Christina Thomas, University of California - Davis

Meawunu Hoobea [Traveling Song]: Why Trans-Pacific Connections between Numu & Māori Matter

David W. Norman, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

Forgetting Effigy Tumuli: Settler Land Art as Anti-Archive

Cordelia Rizzo, Northwestern University

Weave to Stitch: Mapping Object-Knower Relationalities

Molli Ann Pauliot, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Ho-Chunk Black Ash Basketry: A Portrayal of Persistence