Welcome to DANSRD

 Our highly qualified team knows the needs of 蝌蚪传媒鈥檚 rural and Native communities and are ready to assist you in meeting your personal, professional and educational goals. 

 
 


Our Programs

BA in Rural Development

Concentrations:

  • Human and Social Development
  • Tribal and Municipal Governance
  • Integrated Resource Management
  • Entrepreneurship and Economic Development 
  • Multidisciplinary 

BA in 蝌蚪传媒 Native Studies

Concentrations:

  • Indigenous Peoples in Law, Governance, and Politics
  • 蝌蚪传媒 Native Knowledge, Cultural Resources, and Expression
  • 蝌蚪传媒 Native Peoples: Health, Wellness, and the Environment
  • Multidisciplinary

MA in Rural Development

Learning objectives:

  • Indigenous leadership development,
  • Organization management,
  • Community development,
  • Program and project planning,
  • Awareness of 蝌蚪传媒 Indigenous issues in a dynamic, cross-cultural environment.

Student Opportunities

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Rural Student Services

Serving rural and 蝌蚪传媒 Native students from across 蝌蚪传媒, Rural Student Services (RSS) is here to help you make UAF your home away from home.

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Festival of Native Arts

The 2023 Festival of Native Arts will take place on Friday and Saturday, February 24th and 25th, 2023. For information about upcoming events or to get involved, visit the FNA website.

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ANCSA Symposium

The UAF Department of 蝌蚪传媒 Native Studies and Rural Development (DANSRD) and  hosted a symposium on the 蝌蚪传媒 Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) on April 12th and 13th, 2022.

Learn more

DANSRD Blog
  • December 02, 2021

    ANCSA changed the lives of everybody in 蝌蚪传媒. Whether you are 蝌蚪传媒 Native, non-Native, or some 鈥渙ther鈥 kind of Native as I am, your life has been affected by ANCSA if you have spent any length of time at all in the state. 蝌蚪传媒 would not look the way it looks today were it not 鈥


  • December 10, 2021

    In the piece that follows, Judith Daxootsu Ramos, DANSRD faculty from 2012 to 2021, discusses the early participation of the 蝌蚪传媒 Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood in the pursuit of land claims. This early involvement resulted in a different formula for deciding on the acreage to be conveyed to the qualifying villages in Southeast 蝌蚪传媒 under 鈥


  • December 14, 2021

    Addressing 蝌蚪传媒 Native Corporations and Their Need to Open Enrollment for 鈥淣ew Natives鈥 Adapted from 鈥淐ase Study of Doyon Limited and Calista鈥 聽by Jolene Nanouk DANSRD student The 蝌蚪传媒 Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was enacted on December 18, 1971, allowing 蝌蚪传媒 Natives born on or before this date with 1/4 blood quantum to be 鈥


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