Indigenous Histories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Institute NEH Grant
The Department of History and Institute for Native-Serving Educators (INE) have received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to deepen high school history teachers’ understanding of Indigenous history and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The $172,912 NEH grant with gather 25 high school social studies teachers from across the nation to participate in a two-week institute “Indigenous Histories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” right here in Flagstaff. “When students do learn Indigenous history, it is often in a romanticized pre-conquest context, during colonization, and then relegated to something of the past,” Professor Lauren Lefty said in an interview with the NAU Review. The institute’s focus will be on the histories of the Diné, Hopi, and San Carlos Apache tribes from the 11th century to the present. Participants will collect from the Museum of Northern Arizona and visit significant historic and cultural sites such as Sunset Crater, Montezuma’s Well, and Wupatki National Monuments, and spend a day in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation.
The first week of the institute will happen online July 7-10, 2025, and the second week on NAU campus July 21-26, 2025. Applications are open right now and close on March 5, 2025. All applicants receive a $2,200 stipend to attend. For more information and to apply, visit INE.
