Current Graduate Students of the NAS Master of Arts Program
Kaja Anderson
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2024
From: Fort Peck, MT; Sioux and Assiniboine Nations
Research interests: Native American military service in WWI
Wes Cawood
From: Lancaster, PA
Education: B.S. in Conservation Biology
Research Interest: Decolonizing food systems, food sovereignty, companion ways of knowing
Douglas Vance Crooked Arm
Dawn Delaney-Aimsback
From: I am an enrolled member and from the Amskapi Pikuni Nation.
Education: Bachelor of Art - Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Native American Policy and current Native American topics that are of concern of one's culture; the representation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, the representation of Contemporary Native American issues, and Climate Change adaptation.
Videography and GIS will allow me to highlight language and its relationship to the land, through an interactive educational story map, which I plan to give to the local Tribal College Library. Showcasing the rich and long history within the given landscape, will help guide and educate the next generation and pass on Indigenous ways of knowing, within the Amskapi Pikuni community.
Laura Fairbanks
From: Obaashiing! Ponemah, Minnesota
Origin: Dakota/Ojibwe, descendant of The Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, and enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation
Education: Indigenous Studies degree, double minor international relations, political science
Interests: Language revitalization, Boys and Girls Clubs and student organizations, building international relationships with other Indigenous and Tribal Nations, Native American history.
Taylor Pajunen
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2024
Sinai Soriano
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2024
Rebecca Warner
From: Boulder, MT
Research Interests: Preservation and revitalization of Indigenous languages; and combining conventional medical knowledge with plant knowledge for community wellness and food sovereignty.
Lisa Wright Lamkins
Caleb Williams
Levi Yellowmule
Tribal Affiliation: Crow Nation