3rd Annual Native & Indigenous Research Symposium
Howka (Kumeyaay greeting)! The Native Resource Center at San Diego State University warmly invites you to participate.
The Native & Indigenous Research & Arts Symposium (NIRAS) serves as an academic space to uplift diverse Native and Indigenous research, narratives, issues, and knowledges. NIRAS aims to center Native and Indigenous epistemological and methodological frameworks that are otherwise ignored within dominant Western academic settings. We also take a transnational approach to Indigeneity that disrupts settler borders and uplifts Indigenous experiences across the globe. Additionally, in honor of the Native American Music and Dance Conference organized by Dr. Vince Whipple in 2022 - we are excited to integrate the arts as a prominent part of our symposium. NIRAS will include visual performances by local and regional Indigenous artists.
We invite Native and Indigenous students and all students at SDSU committed to the sovereign identity and progress of Indigenous Peoples to submit a proposal. Participants of all disciplines of study are encouraged to center Indigenous constructions of knowledge and the relational and reciprocal aspects of research.
Our keynote speaker for this year is Dr. Amanda Tachine. Dr. Amanda R. Tachine is Navajo from Ganado, Arizona. She is Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (Zuni Red Running into Water) born for Tł’ízí łání (Many Goats). She is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. Amanda’s research explores the relationship between systemic and structural histories of settler colonialism and the ongoing erasure of Indigenous presence and belonging in college settings using qualitative Indigenous methodologies. She is the author of Native Presence and Sovereignty in College and co-editor of Weaving an Otherwise: In-relations Methodological Practice. Dr. Tachine's keynote address will take place on Friday, April 14th, 2023.
For more information, please visit https://sacd.sdsu.edu/native-resource/programs/nativeresearch
NIRAS is an in-person two-day event and is FREE and open to ALL to attend.
REGISTER HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6e4OLX2RuQGjpp8Posa8qkiGl08mgr0kmwmRI3RHMg_7MbQ/viewform