CNAIR

See what's happening at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR).

An outdated Siouan language family tree

The ancient history of the Siouan-Catawban language family: Synthesizing archival and computational approaches

Edwin Ko

November 14, 2022

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Native American Scholars Initiative

For Now and For Later: (Re)Contextualizing Elsie Clews Parsons from a Pueblo Perspective

Alexis Scalese

November 4, 2022

Native American Scholars Initiative

Decoding Mvskoke Stories: (the Issue with Linguistic Notation)

Katie McGhee

October 10, 2022

image of word lists

From "Mammoth" to "Refrigerator": A Look at Indigenous Vocabulary Lists (Part 1)

Brian Carpenter

April 25, 2022

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Siberian materials in the ACLS Collection

Paul Sutherland

April 11, 2022

Eastern Canada map

Reading Behind the Notes on Anthropologists' Maps

Brian Carpenter

March 7, 2022

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Native American Scholars Initiative

Grants and Fellowships

Featured Fellow: Candy Martínez, 2020-2021 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellow

American Philosophical Society

January 23, 2022

site core at Xunantunich

Native American Scholars Initiative

Curating Xunantunich: Maya Ethnohistory & Iconography at the APS's Library

Anabelle Rodríguez

November 30, 2021