Editors’ Remarks

greetings from the new editorial team for Native American and Indigenous Studies / NAIS! Editors Kelly McDonough (White Earth Ojibwe / Irish descent, University of Texas at Austin) and K. Tsianina Lomawaima (unenrolled Muskogee, Arizona State University) are joined by two managing editors, Alina Scott (Belizean Creole) and Montserrat Madariaga-Caro, who staff the editorial office, housed at the University of Texas at Austin.

We must begin by extending our heartfelt thanks—Miigwech! Mado!—to all of those to whom we are indebted for the privilege of working on NAIS.

First and foremost, we are extremely fortunate to inherit a vibrant, dynamic, award-winning journal from the founding editors, Jean M. O’Brien and Robert Warrior. Together, in an extraordinary seven-year term, O’Brien and Warrior built NAIS from the ground up to its current status as the premier journal of international Indigenous studies. Their legacies of scholarly rigor, interdisciplinary and geographic breadth and inclusivity, and their knowledge of colleagues across disciplines, Indigenous communities, and continents to recruit as reviewers of manuscripts, books, exhibits, and films constitute a daunting challenge to live up to.

We thank NAISA’s Council for their endorsement of the editorial team proposal from the University of Texas at Austin. With gratitude we recognize Dean Randy Diehl, Dean Ann Huff Stevens, and Associate Dean Richard Flores in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin for their generous financial, in-kind, and intellectual support of the editorial office and team. As institutional support for journal editorial offices shrinks, the University of Texas at Austin’s commitment to NAIS is noteworthy.

The University of Minnesota Press and its editorial director, Jason Weide-mann, and his team have extended their unyielding support and belief in the mission of NAIS since its inception. This is a true partnership, all too rare in today’s academic publishing world, and for that we are grateful.

The NAIS Editorial Board is currently comprised of twenty-one brilliant and dedicated scholars with wide-ranging expertise in the discipline of Indigenous studies. The breadth and depth of their collective knowledge, as well as their experience in academia and beyond, are priceless; we are glad for their guidance.

Along with the scholars who submit their exceptional work to the journal, our anonymous (and likely overworked) colleagues who invest countless hours sharing their expertise throughout the peer review of manuscripts and the published reviews section of the journal make NAIS possible. Scores of individuals who volunteer their time and energy to writing reviews of books, films, digital projects, and exhibits support the journal’s robust review section. We recognize and thank you all for your valuable service. Finally, we thank you, the reader, for your support of the journal.

If you hope to reach an international Indigenous readership and to contribute to the exciting development of Indigenous studies, we encourage you to submit your manuscripts to NAIS. Following in the footsteps of O’Brien and Warrior, we continue to welcome original scholarly manuscripts from all the areas encompassed within Indigenous studies’ interdisciplinary range, including creative writing, notes from the field, and reviews of books, films, digital projects, and exhibits.

If you have any questions or would like to volunteer as a reviewer, please contact us at journal@naisa.org. Visit the website at www.naisa.org/journal/ for more information on editorial policies, the Editorial Board, and how to submit to NAIS. To follow journal news and updates on opportunities to review for the journal, follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naisjournal and Twitter: https://twitter.com/review4nais

Sincerely and with warm regards,
Kelly McDonough (University of Texas at Austin) and K. Tsianina Lomawaima
(Arizona State University), NAIS Editors