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Labriola Center recognized by American Libraries Magazine

The Labriola Center is one of 15 libraries recognized in the American Libraries’ 2025 Library Design Showcase....

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Labriola Center announces 2025 National Book Award winner

A groundbreaking book examining the overlooked legacy of "redface" in American theater is being recognized for its contributions to Indigenous scholarship. “Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneit...

Book cover of From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis

Honoring innovative practices, impact in the field of American Indian studies

American Indian Studies at Arizona State University will host a panel event to celebrate the release of “From the Skin,” a collection over three years in the making centering stories, theories and pra...

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Labriola Center announces 2024 National Book Award recipients

The Labriola National American Indian Data Center at the ASU Library recently announced the recipients of the 2024 National Book Award. “Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous No...

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Expanded staff, new space helps connect Labriola Center with Native American community

Alexander Soto’s excitement and joy was evident as he showed a visitor the new Labriola National American Indian Data Center space inside Hayden Library on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus. Th...

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Labriola Center Blog: March 2024 Highlights

Highlights from the Labriola Center At the end of this past February, the Labriola Center hosted our biannual Indigenous Open Mic Poetry Night. We also had the opportunity and pleasure of meeting a M...

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Annual Labriola Book Award with Dr. Valerie Lambert

Annual Labriola Book Award with Dr. Valerie Lambert This November, the Labriola Center hosted Dr. Valerie Lambert to speak about her book that won this year's Annual Labriola Book Award. ...

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Labriola Blog: November 2023 Highlights

Highlights from the Labriola Center This past November, the Labriola Center hosted and partnered on various events that touched on the duality and diversity of Indigenous peoples for Native American...

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Author Valerie Lambert to deliver Labriola Center National Book Award lecture

The Labriola National American Indian Data Center at the ASU Library has announced that “Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs” by Valerie Lambert is the recipient of the center’s Nat...