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We are delighted to announce the 20th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky, featuring David G. Lewis, PhD, a teacher in Anthropology and Indigenous Studies at OSU. This webinar will … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 19th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky: Astrophysicist Dr. Nour E. Rawafi from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.    This webinar will take … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 18th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky: MEET NASA COMMANDER NICOLE MANN, THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE!   This webinar will take … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 17h webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky: ECLIPSES – THROUGH INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES   This webinar will take place Thursday, March 28, 2024, at Noon … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 16th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky: YAKANAL – Rekindling Our Ancestral Relationship to Place, featuring Isable Hawkins, PhD, and Shelly Valdez, PhD.   … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 15th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky: Impacts of Uranium/ Uranio on Community and Land a Journey through Poetry and Music. Featuring Dr. Juan … Continue reading

Dr. Nancy Maryboy and Dr. David Begay were recently interviewed by the New York Times in relation to the upcoming Annular Eclipes this Saturday the 14th! Click here to read now!

We are delighted to announce the 14th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky, featuring Elizabeth Azzuz.   This webinar will take place September 28th, 2023, Noon Pacific Time.Click here to register … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 13th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky, featuring Dr. Polly Walker.     This webinar will take place August 17th, 2023, Noon Pacific Time.Click here … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 12th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky – Inside Indigenous Classrooms,  featuring NASA EZIE Mission Program Manager Dr. Nelofar Mosavi, Indigenous students, Maverick teachers, … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 11th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky,  featuring Roberta (Bobbie) Conner. This webinar took place Novenber 17th, 2022, at noon Pacific Time. The recording … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 10th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky,  featuring Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate. This webinar took place July 14th, 2022, at noon Pacific … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 9th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water and Sky,  featuring Swinomish Elder Larry Campbell This webinar took place January 20, 2022, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 8th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky,  featuring Dr. Isabel Hawkins, Astronomer, and Doña María Ávila, Maya Elder, presenting Living with the Stars on Day … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 7th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky,  featuring Dr. John Herrington, former NASA Astronaut. This webinar took place September 23, 2021, at Noon Pacific Time. … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 6th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky,  featuring Dr. Henrietta Mann, former director and professor in Native American Studies at the University of Montana, Missoula. … Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the 5th webinar in our Speaker Series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky,  featuring Chad Kālepa Babayan, a Pwo navigator, who will be speaking about the resurgence of Oceanic Wayfinding, the … Continue reading

Announcing the 4th webinar in our Speaker Series – A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky – featuring Dr. Gregory Cajete, who will be speaking on Native Science and Astronomy. Please click on the link below to … Continue reading

We are very excited to announce our 3rd webinar in our Speaker Series – A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky, featuring Dr. Robin Kimmerer! This webinar will take place at Noon (Pacific Time) on August 20, … Continue reading

Webinar Recordings Thank you for attending our webinar series – A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky! Recordings of these webinars are available a couple of days after the live event – please look at our Multimedia … Continue reading

A Sense of Place – with Ka’iu Kimura Our first webinar was such a huge success, we’re going to do another one! Mark your calendars for June 18th at Noon, Pacific Time, for our second Sense of Place webinar, with … Continue reading

We’ve added capacity and live streaming! Due to overwhelming demand, we have increased out capacity and have re-opened registration to our Webinar! We will also be Live Streaming to our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousEducationInstitute) so please Like our page and follow … Continue reading

A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Land and Sky Our Webinar Series Introductory Presentation Featuring Dr. Leroy Little Bear Dr. Little Bear will compare the historical foundations of scientific thought from European and Indigenous perspectives, identifying paradigm differences that … Continue reading

The Indigenous Education Institute is honored to announce a collaboration BLM called “A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Land and Sky” and the first speaker is Dr. Leroy Little Bear. The first webinar is tentatively scheduled for May 28, … Continue reading

The IEI Website was hacked back in November, and it’s taken a long long time to get things back up and running, but I’m happy to report we are back, and will be updating this website over the coming weeks, … Continue reading

IEI is in Washington DC right now, co-hosting an NSF funded workshop with ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii. The workshop is I-WISE, Indigenous Ways of Informal Science Education, and you can learn more about it at the workshop’s website http://iwiseconference.org … Continue reading

IEI has recently completed a four year, NASA funded,project to create 17 modules and activities for presentation in portable planetariums, fixed planetariums, and in the classroom. These modules share Navajo astronomy juxtaposed against Western astronomy. The modules will be for … Continue reading

Our latest publication, a legacy document for the Cosmic Serpent project, was published in December, 2012. We’ll be posting an e-book soon, so be sure to check back at this website, or go to Sharing The Skies, the IEI Educational … Continue reading

Generations of Knowledge – Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) – Generations of Knowledge is a five year National Science Foundation Informal Science Education full scale development project awarded to OMSI, with IEI being a subawardee. It is intended … Continue reading

Imagine Mars Through Native Eyes – IEI has been awarded a grant from NASA to develop a program for Native students around the theme “Imagine Mars Through Native Eyes.” The program will be patterned after the existing program “Imagine Mars,” … Continue reading

Native Universe: Indigenous Voice in Science Museums – IEI is proud to announce their recent award from NSF for a four year Informal Science Education (ISE) grant to fund the project “Native Universe.” We are the lead institution in collaboration … Continue reading

Cosmic Serpent – IEI has completed the Cosmic Serpent grant. The NSF funded program was implemented from 2007 to 2012. Partners in the program were the Space Sciences Lab, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), National Museum of the American Indian … Continue reading

We are happy to announce the third printing of Sharing The Skies: Navajo Astronomy, A Cross Cultural View. Also available are the CD Stars Over Dine Bikeyah, and the poster Dine (Navajo) Universe and original and giclee paintings of Navajo … Continue reading

Paradox and Transformation is published in a peer reviewed journal, the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium, Volume 2, 2006, by Dr. Nancy C. Maryboy, Dr. David Begay and Mr. Lee Nichol. Download the PDF here.