Native American

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Research

Working with Tribal nations to preserve pinyon forests and pine nuts

With California Climate Action Seed Grant funding, ESPM assistant professor Miranda Redmond is assisting Tribal nations in managing culturally important pinyon-juniper forests in the eastern Sierra Nevada

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Law

‘Be the Change’: Nazune Menka on creating the course, Decolonizing UC Berkeley

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Arts & culture

‘Regardless of where I am in the world, Diné Asdzáán Nishłí (I am a Diné woman)’

Staff member Phenocia Bauerle, a co-sponsor of the Indigenous Community Learning Garden, examined corn growing there.

Campus & community

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month, every month

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Exploring the sound of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz

Berkeley Talks: Indigenous access, political ecology in settler states

Vince Medina and Louis Trevino, co-founders of Café Ohlone, stand together in the courtyard of the Hearst Museum, where construction is going on for a new home for the café.

PBS NewsHour features campus work to repatriate artifacts to Indigenous tribes

Quirina Geary (third from left) at the 2018 Breath of Life conference at UC Berkeley. She was joined (left to right) by Peter Nelson, Rosario Torres, Alesia Moniz and Abran Lopez.

After pandemic hiatus, Native American language survival workshop returns to campus

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Social workers were her ‘saving grace.’ Now, she’s going to be one.

Alexii Sigona on supporting his tribe as an academic

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Berkeley Talks: ‘Indigenous United’ podcast hosts on NAGPRA and Berkeley

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$10 million for Berkeley, alliance of Native American institutions

Berkeley Talks: Linda Rugg on Native American repatriation at UC Berkeley

Morino Baca, a Native American graduate student in public health, works on an archaeology project in Pueblo de Abiquiú, 20 miles from Española in New Mexico where he grew up. At left, UC Berkeley student Jasper Sundeen. (Photo by Danny Sosa Aguilar)

Indigenous archaeology plows forward, despite anthropology’s checkered past

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How state courts use disability to remove Native children from their homes

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How the U.S. government created an ‘insane asylum’ to imprison Native Americans

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