UW-Madison centers, programs, and units serving Native American interests

American Indian Curriculum Services – School of Education – Teacher Education Center. Advances Act 31 – teaching and learning of the histories, cultures, and tribal sovereignty of the 12 American Indian Nations of Wisconsin.
American Indian Studies Program, UW-Madison.
Director of Tribal Relations, Advances relationships with the 12 American Indian Nations of WI.
Division of Diversity Equity and Educational Achievement ACTS Indigenous Student Services Coordinator (DDEEA-ACTS) – Laura Hiebing (Métis), Academic Coaching and Tutoring Services.
Division of Extension – Native American Task Force – Division of Extension.
Division of Extension FRTEP and Tribal Educators – collaborations between UW-Madison and Tribal Nations:
- Bad River Ojibwe Nation (Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program [FRTEP] educator).
- Forest County Potawatomi Nation (tribal educator).
- Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Nation (tribal educator).
- Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Nation (tribal educator).
- Menominee Nation (tribal educator).
Earth Partnership – Indigenous Arts and Sciences – UW Arboretum.
EcoWell Initiative – School of Human Ecology.
Elders in Residence Program to support Native American students on campus.
Enwejig Indigenous Language Advocates, UW-Madison Language Initiative.
Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center, Law School.
Indigenous Ecowell Initiative (2021-2022), School of Human Ecology.
Indigenous Education Coordinator – Office of Provost – Collaborative for Teaching and Learning and School of Education.
Indigenous Health and Wellness Day, School of Medicine and Public Health.
Indigenous Language Instruction – languages previously taught at UW-Madison: Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Ojibwe, and Oneida. Current language instruction – Fall 2021: Dakota I and Ojibwe III; and Spring 2022: Dakota II and Ojibwe IV.
Indigenous Student Center – place for Indigenous student wellness in the form of community and culturally-responsive environment for students and student organizations. Academic programming, including Indigenous language instruction. Formerly known as the American Indian Student and Cultural Center.
Information Technology Academy – tribal cohorts for Lac du Flambeau, Madison-area, and Oneida ITA students. ITA staff: Chris Kilgour.
Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas, School of Human Ecology, Fall 2020.
Multicultural Student Center – Native/Indigenous Student Program Coordinator – Bobbi Skenandore (Oneida)
Native American Center for Health Professions (NACHP) – NACHP staff advisors Melissa Metoxen (Oneida), Lauren Cornelius (Oneida), and Lina Martin (Ho-Chunk and Stockbridge-Munsee) support pre-health professions and health professions students.
Native Nations – UW Initiative Forum of faculty, staff, and students collaborating with Indigenous Nations.
Native Nations – UW Initiative Tribal Advisory Council – 14 tribal representatives appointed by each of the 12 Native Nation of Wisconsin.
Native Nations – UW Initiative Working Group implementation team (12 faculty, staff, and students) and focus areas for 2021-2025:
- Indigenous Student Well-being.
- Indigenous Language Infusion and Revitalization.
- Proposed Indigenous Research Center (working title).
- Curriculum Infusion and Indigenization.
- Indigenous Land Acknowledgments.
- Native Education Pathways.
- Indigenous Placemaking.
Native November – each year, a coordinated effort among student organizations provides the campus with various programming through the Indigenous Student Center Coalition (ISCC).
Office of Admissions and Recruitment – Monty Little
On Wisconsin Powwow – annual spring powwow at UW-Madison hosted by Wunk Sheek Native American student group and Multicultural Student Center Native/Indigenous Student Program Coordinator.
Our Shared Future – teaching and learning initiative and innovation grants to teach about the 12,000-year human story of this place.
PEOPLE Program Native student support staff – Lina Martin (Ho-Chunk and Stockbridge-Munsee) supports Native American students on PEOPLE scholarships.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Languages Initiative – includes one of three priorities: “Advocating for increased visibility and support for Indigenous languages.”