Imagining Sovereign Indigenous Futures: Drawing Wisdom from the Past for a Self-Determined Future
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The American Indian Studies Association (AISA) honors the scholars and communities who established and continue to strengthen the discipline of American Indian Studies (AIS). This year’s conference celebrates generations of scholars, educators, activists, researchers, practitioners and students whose work protects and furthers Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination across spaces and spectrums. Conference panels and roundtables will engage in theories, methodologies, pedagogies and practice of the discipline.
We will celebrate all our voices as we envision sovereign futures. Sovereignty is ever-changing and not without challenge. We will highlight work on issues of land, language and linguistics, culture, identity, social and environmental justice, economics, policy and politics, treaty rights and representation in film and media. We honor scholarship rooted in Indigenous epistemologies and in collaboration with community as we seek sovereign, self-determined futures.
American Indian Studies (AIS) at Arizona State University (ASU) is proud to be the 2025 host. Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized Indigenous Nations. ASU is on the ancestral lands of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh Peoples and is community to more than 3,800 American Indian/Alaska Native students and dozens of Indigenous faculty.