Our programs and support for students
High Plains American Indian Research Institute (HPAIRI) supports collaborative research with Native communities, grounded in respect, empowerment, and cultural sustainability.
Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) offers an undergraduate major, undergraduate minor, and a graduate minor, examining the cultural, social, economic, political, and educational systems of Native and Indigenous communities.
The Native American Summer Institute (NASI) is a 6-day residential summer pre-college program designed to familiarize Native American High School Students (current 9th-12th grade students) from the Wind River Reservation, surrounding communities, and the town of Laramie.
Learn more about our peer mentoring program, SAGE: Support. Advocate. Grow. Empower. Designed to support the success and well-being of Native American students, we help navigate academic and campus life with cultural understanding and connection at its core.
NAERCC houses several student organizations to foster community and cultural connection.
Learn about the resources and tools UW has in place to support first-generation Native American students.
Land Acknowledgement
“We collectively acknowledge that the University of Wyoming occupies the ancestral
and traditional lands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, and Shoshone Indigenous peoples
along with other Native tribes who call the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain region
home. We recognize, support and advocate alongside Indigenous individuals and communities
who live here now, and with those forcibly removed from their Homelands.”
As of 2020, per ASUW Senate Bill #2699, this statement is read at each ASUW meeting
to honor the original inhabitants and their sacrifices. We appreciate our UW partners
supporting our continued efforts to advocate for and provide space for our Native
community and students at UW.
