Dr. Gina Starblanket & Dr. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark Co-Edit Fall 2026 Issue of NAIS

IGOV faculty members Dr. Gina Starblanket and Dr. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, co-editors of the Journal of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), published a new issue of the journal for Fall 2026.

As the journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, NAIS is based in North America but seeks to bridge the distances across the Indigenous world, creating a dynamic intellectual space for the communication and dissemination of excellent scholarship related to Indigenous Studies.

The Fall 2026 issue features the following articles:

• Ghost Dance Garments as Lakota Relations of Care by Jennifer Graber
• Rez Gothic: Monstrous Aunties, Double Selves, and the Detritus of Settler Colonialism by Mallory Whiteduck
• The Mapuche Diaspora: Colonialism, Postdictatorship Mapuche Politics, Anticolonialism by Sebastián López Vergara
• Teaching for Seven Generations: Reclaiming Indigenous Day School Histories Through Community-Engaged Research by Tarisa Dawn Little
• Art Installation as Placekeeping: Cultural Mapping with Lower Columbia River Aesthetics by Natchee Blu Barnd
• Maize, Power, and Culture in the Twenty-First Century by Roberto J. González

The issue also includes numerous reviews of recent publications in Indigenous Studies.