Community Engagement
Faculty, students and community members in support of #NoDAPL
With support of the Department of Indigenous Studies, student groups at the undergraduate (Indigenous Student Collective and AISES) and graduate level (Native Graduate Association) are involving the UB community in Indigenous-centered events that share our foods, culture, heritage and worldviews.
The Indigenous Studies HUB helps build community for Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and surrounding Indigenous communities here at UB.
With programming that looks to help cultivate a community in which Indigenous people feel welcomed. We look to serve all Indigenous people across the campus while also spreading awareness to the UB community and surrounding areas.
Our hub also aims to contribute to Indigenous faculty and student retention and success. It is meant to provide Indigenous faculty and students with a locus of support on campus. It houses Indigenous staff dedicated to the wellbeing of Indigenous students. The Indigenous Studies Department will foster community building among Indigenous students and scholars on our campus, providing space, services and opportunities for dialogue, interaction, and networking.
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One of the main ways in which we share our culture with the community is through hosting Haudenosaunee social dances.
Along with these social dances we often hold culture demonstrations for the UB community to help celebrate Indigenous culture.
Launched in 2009, the Haudenosaunee-Native American Studies Research Group has worked to sustain Indigenous-centered intellectual culture on our campus and to actively foster Indigenous inclusion and community engagement. The HNA is comprised of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied faculty and students from across disciplines at UB and provides a forum for discussion of work in the ever-emerging interdisciplinary field of Indigenous studies.