Center for Native American and Indigenous Research

Upcoming Events!

CNAIR & RISE Research Celebration

Saturday February 21st, 9 am - 3 pm.

Please join us for a series of presentations from our community of emerging scholars! The event will celebrate graduate students, undergraduate students, and postdoctoral scholars who are engaging with Indigenous research methods and Indigenous studies. At this event, we will also honor the mentorship provided to our emerging scholars. Faculty, students, community, family, & friends are invited to attend. Breakfast & lunch will be provided! RSVP required.

WHEN: Saturday February 21st, 2026, from 9 am - 3 pm with breakfast served at 8:30 am

WHERE: TGS Commons

Event Details

CNAIR Winter Quarter Brown Bag

Tuesday, February 24th, 12-1 PM

Speaker: Mere Taito, inaugural 2025-27 Postdoctoral Scholar, CNAIR

In this presentation, Mere Taito will consider the overlapping, multi-functional roles of walking in everyday life and argue that these layered functions enact an Indigenous feminist understanding of intersectionality.

WHEN: Tuesday, February 24th, 12-1 PM
WHERE: Wildcat Room, Norris University Center

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Raven Chacon & the Contemporary Music Ensemble!

Saturday, March 7th, 7:00 pm

The concert program includes Diné (Navajo Nation) composer Raven Chacon’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning Voiceless Mass, a work designed to utilize a house of worship with musicians spread out across the space, employing its architecture to illustrate the complex legacy of the Catholic Church and its treatment of Native Americans. Isleta Pueblo/Filipina/Italian vocalist Michaela Marchi joins the ensemble for Chacon’s Owl Song, “an acknowledgment of the nocturnal hunting bird, considered by some to have the ability of shapeshifting,” as the composer explains. Also on the program are György Ligeti’s Organ Study No.1: Harmonies and Jessie Cox’s Quantify.

WHEN: Saturday, March 7, 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Alice Millar Chapel