{ REVISED 21February 2008}

A Guide to Native American Studies Programs
in the United States and Canada

Robert M. Nelson, Editor

Several years ago, in the Fall of 1993, the Association for the Study of American Literatures published a 30-page guide to Native American Studies programs in the U.S., compiled and edited by former ASAIL President Franchot Ballinger. This new Guide to Native American Studies Programs in the United States and Canada represents an attempt to update and expand upon Professor Ballinger's pioneering work. In accordance with a 1995 ASAIL resolution, it is being published both in hardcopy form and in electronic form, so as to be available not only to ASAIL members but also to non-members, compliments of the Association.

I wish to take this opportunity to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of two SAIL Editorial Assistants, Amy Davidson (1995-96) and Corrie Anderson (1996-97), who in addition to their other duties put in many hours of overtime gathering and regathering, collating and recollating information from a variety of sources including questionnaires, follow-up letters and phone calls, and worldwide websites. Thanks also to Karen Strom at University of Massachusetts, who read the final draft of this guide and provided or corrected many of the URL addresses for program websites.

Our dream was to provide a comprehensive survey of U.S. and Canadian Native American Studies programs being offered as majors, minors, and certifications at the baccalaureate level or above, using (with some slight modifications and additions) Professor Ballinger's earlier categories of information on each program. And although we have made a considerable effort to locate, contact, and acquire information about Native American Studies programs (by whatever title: Native American Studies and American Indian Studies are the most common designations, though there are others) at all North American baccalaureate-granting institutions, readers should keep in mind that the Guide is still far from complete. There are a number of reasons for this, and I'd point to two in particular. First, several programs that we located declined to provide information; in those cases we have elected not to list that school or that program. Exceptions to this rule are programs having substantial www sites; in these cases we have attempted to construct full or partial entries from information made available at those sites. Second, we suspect that we did not succeed in locating all the existing programs. It is thus possible, even likely, that several substantial programs were never contacted by us in the first place.

We are working on ways to correct these problems in order to increase the accuracy and comprehensiveness, not only of possible future print versions, but also of this electronic version of the guide. Because this website can be conveniently upgraded more frequently than a print guide, it has the potential to become the most reliable source of such information available anywhere, anytime, to everyone. For these reasons, I am hoping that anyone who knows of a program that is not represented in this publication, or who knows of any inaccuracies herein, will contact me at rnelson@richmond.edu or at the postal address below, or fill out the survey form we have designed for this purpose, to let us know about any errors, omissions, or updates in Native Studies programs being offered in North America at the baccalaureate level or higher.

(A note on alphabetization: consistent with PMLA Directory style, for purposes of ordering entries alphabetically we have ignored "University of" and "College of" openers to names of institutions, with the exception that "State University of New York" entries have been entered as though they were "SUNY" followed by local campus designation.)

Native American Studies Programs by Region

Note: The following institutions also have Native Studies programs but have not yet provided us with information on their programs; they are linked to their home pages rather than to Guide entries.

Brandon U CSU Fresno Harvard U U of Illinois at Chicago Indiana U-Purdue U Fort Wayne Malaspina U-C U of Minnesota - Duluth Montana S U Billings

Montana State U - Northern U of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) St. Thomas U Southeastern Oklahoma State U SUNY Fredonia University College of the North Utah U Valparaiso U Washington State U

Degrees, Certifications, etc. Granted

Ph.D., M.A.

U of Arizona (Ph.D., M.A.)

U of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. w/ concentration in N.A. Studies)

U of California, Davis (M.A., Ph.D., D.E.)

U of California, Los Angeles (M.A.)

U of California, Riverside (major or minor Ph.D. fields)

Cornell U (Graduate Minor in American Indian Studies)

The Evergreen State C (M.A. in Environmental Studies, Teaching)
U of Hawai'i at Hilo (M.A. in Hawaiian Language and Literature; M.A. in Indigenous Language and Culture Education; Ph.D. in Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization)

U of Hawai'i at Mänoa (M.A.)

U of Kansas (M.A.)

U of Lethbridge (Special Case Masters)
U Manitoba (M.A.)
McMaster U
Montana S U (M.A.)
U of Nebraska, Lincoln (M.A., Ph.D. w/ NA emphasis)
U of Nebraska at Omaha (M.A. w/ NA emphasis)

U of Northern British Columbia (M.A.)

U of Oklahoma (M.A.)
U Saskatchewan (M.A., special case Ph.D.)

U of South Dakota (M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies)
SUNY at Buffalo (M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies with a Focus in Indigenous/Native American Studies)

Trent U (Ph.D. , M.A.)

U of Victoria (M.A.; Ph.D.; Concurrent M.A./L.L.B.)
U of Washington (M.A. in Indigenous Documentary FilmMaking)

Western Carolina U (M.A. in History, Cherokee Studies Track)
U of Wyoming (Ph.D. w/ minor in American Indian Studies)

Black Hills State U (concentration in Lakota Culture)
C S U, Hayward (option)
C S U, Long Beach
C S U, Sacramento
Cape Breton U
Colgate U
Cornell U
Five Colleges (certificate)
U of Georgia (undergraduate and graduate certificates)
U of Iowa (undergraduate and graduate certificates)
Laurentian U (Pre-Law Certificate)
U Laval (certificate)
U of Massachusetts
Michigan S U (Specialization)
Minot S U
U of New Mexico (Interdisciplinary Specialization)
UNC at Pembroke
Northern Arizona U (certificate)
U of Northern British Columbia
Southern Oregon U (certificate)
SUNY at Buffalo
U of Washington (B.A. Anthropology w/ emphasis in AIS)
U of Wisconsin, Madison (certificate)
U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (interdisciplinary)

Contact: rnelson@richmond.edu