About the Artist
Mer Young is a descendant of Chichimeca and Apache Tribe (Ndé). She is an Indigenous published multidisciplinary artist who has created a body of artwork manifested in collages, drawings, paintings, and founder of Mausi Murals public artworks. She is a BIPOC activist, steward of land and water and environmental justice advocate. Young's artworks aim to inspire, celebrate and elevate Indigenous and Native cultures and to bring about change within Brown and Black communities.
About the Artist
Mer Young is a descendant of Chichimeca and Apache Tribe (Ndé). She is an Indigenous published multidisciplinary artist who has created a body of artwork manifested in collages, drawings, paintings, and founder of Mausi Murals public artworks. She is a BIPOC activist, steward of land and water and environmental justice advocate. Young's artworks aim to inspire, celebrate and elevate Indigenous and Native cultures and to bring about change within Brown and Black communities.
About the Artist
Layqa Nuna Yawar (b. Cuenca, Ecuador 1984) is a public artist and multidisciplinary storyteller based in the unceded lands of the Lenni-Lenape: current day Newark, NJ. His work is best known for large scale community-based murals, intricate portrait paintings and multimedia projects that center the complex narratives of immigrant, black, indigenous and subaltern populations. His artwork aims to disrupt established semiotic systems and reimagine them in service of shared liberation and a better future.
About the Artist
Layqa Nuna Yawar (b. Cuenca, Ecuador 1984) is a public artist and multidisciplinary storyteller based in the unceded lands of the Lenni-Lenape: current day Newark, NJ. His work is best known for large scale community-based murals, intricate portrait paintings and multimedia projects that center the complex narratives of immigrant, black, indigenous and subaltern populations. His artwork aims to disrupt established semiotic systems and reimagine them in service of shared liberation and a better future.
About the Artist
Layqa Nuna Yawar (b. Cuenca, Ecuador 1984) is a public artist and multidisciplinary storyteller based in the unceded lands of the Lenni-Lenape: current day Newark, NJ. His work is best known for large scale community-based murals, intricate portrait paintings and multimedia projects that center the complex narratives of immigrant, black, indigenous and subaltern populations. His artwork aims to disrupt established semiotic systems and reimagine them in service of shared liberation and a better future.
About the Artist
Savannah is a Rarámuri/Wixárika artist working towards healing intergenerational and present trauma through creation, education, and relationships. Savannah’s artwork surround MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) and Gender Violence that Indigenous women face.
About the Artist
Savannah is a Rarámuri/Wixárika artist working towards healing intergenerational and present trauma through creation, education, and relationships. Savannah’s artwork surround MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) and Gender Violence that Indigenous women face.
About the Artist
Savannah is a Rarámuri/Wixárika artist working towards healing intergenerational and present trauma through creation, education, and relationships. Savannah’s artwork surround MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) and Gender Violence that Indigenous women face.
About the Artist
Pachi Muruchu is a Kichwa painter based in the Bronx. His work focuses on animistic storytelling from his ancestral Andean geographies and the Lenape territory where he grew up. His images weave centuries of Indigenous storytelling with contemporary experiences. The graffiti is inspired by the Oakland artist Hector Muñoz Guzmán, the main figure in the painting.
About the Artist
Jennifer Albarracin Moya is a Quechua (Bolivia) multi-disciplinary artist, who turns the abstract into digestible visual art. Her specialization in digital media is an extension of her art, enhancing community making, dialogue, and education. Jennifer is also the Creative Director of The Quechua Project.
About the Artist
Jennifer Albarracin Moya is a Quechua (Bolivia) multi-disciplinary artist, who turns the abstract into digestible visual art. Her specialization in digital media is an extension of her art, enhancing community making, dialogue, and education. Jennifer is also the Creative Director of The Quechua Project.
About the Artist
Tia is an Indigenous artist from the Seminole Tribe of Florida, with a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Their work ranges in media with motifs of identity and Seminole culture, as well as character driven narratives.

What is NAGIS?

The Native American and Global Indigenous Studies (NAGIS) project recognizes the need to support and amplify Native American and Indigenous voices across all University of Miami campuses. Our goal is to provide ongoing and varied opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, and the University community at large, to consider the complex histories, lived experiences, and perspectives of Native peoples in relation to diverse areas of knowledge and, more importantly, to their own lives.
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Land Acknowledgement

The University of Miami acknowledges the ancestral and traditional territories of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Council of the Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation Aboriginal Peoples and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida who are the original owners and custodians of the land upon which we stand and learn.

This photo of Deb Haaland was taken by Jim Watson of the Associated Press. The image was obtained from the corresponding article in the Tampa Bay Times.

What Deb Haaland's as Interior Secretary means for indigenous peoples and the nation.

For the first time in nearly 250 years, Native Americans will be represented at the Cabinet level.

This drawing is by Chelsey Ford, a Seminole descendent. This image was obtained from the article which was published with it.

New Native American studies program begins at the University of Miami

The University of Miami introduced its new Native American and Global Indigenous Studies (NAGIS) program with the spring semester Jan. 25.

A march to recognize indigenous peoples rights. Borrowed from News@TheU.

Team aims to elevate indigenous voices

A group of professors and staff members are working to start a Native American and Global Indigenous Studies program at the University, beginning with an introductory class offered this spring.

This is a graphic design. The University of Miami logo. Image borrowed from News@TheU.

Alumna works at dream job at Seminole Tribe of Florida

Caroline LaPorte, J.D. ’14, a Florida-born descendant of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, works at her dream job with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

This is a painting of a turtle by the University of Miami's faculty member, Caroline La Porte.