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Immigration Rights and Resources for the Campus Community

Giving

Thank you for considering a gift to the Native American Studies Department. Together, we can help today’s students achieve their dreams. 

To ensure students continue receiving the highest-quality education possible, we recommend three key areas where donors can make the greatest impact:

  1. Student field trips provide a valuable experience for our students to visit art exhibitions, artist studios and other opportunities in larger cities. There are several ways for donors to help, such as covering travel expenses and museum entry fees.
  2. Guest speakers are invited to share their knowledge and expertise with our students. Donors are invited to help with travel expenses and speaker fees.
  3. Our on-campus galleries require financial support to continue to grow and showcase the artwork of local, national and internationally renowned artists. Donors are invited to help support our on campus galleries, the Goudi'ni Native American Arts Gallery and Reese Bullen gallery in numerous ways.

With your support in these key areas, our students will have the experiences they need to learn, grow, and help develop a more inclusive, and sustainable future for our planet.

To learn more about giving, call Cal Poly Humboldt Foundations: (707) 826-5200.

Letter from the Chair

Kayla Begay

It is an amazing and exciting time for NAS at Cal Poly Humboldt. We have three new tenure-track faculty hires in the last five years. Who are local Indigenous women dedicated to continuing the legacy of this department. We’ve doubled our majors, tripled our minors, and continued to build cross-disciplinary and cross-college opportunities for students to take NAS classes. We believe in the power of our community connections, and we know that the next 25 years and the 25 years after that are full of potential and possibility. Our work in NAS will continue to center our tribal communities, Indigenous knowledges and our shared futures. Some of our planned projects include: continuing to revitalize the Center for Indian Community Development including a Language Revitalization Lab, Food Sovereignty Lab and community workshop space. We remain a grassroots department, one that builds community for our students and invites our Indigenous nations to partner with us. Consider donating to the department if you can or reach out to us so that we can dream the next 25 years together. - Kayla