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Native American Studies (NAMS) at Sonoma State University provides students with learning opportunities with interdisciplinary courses encompassing history, literature, environment and sustainability, social justice, film, arts, philosophical systems, language, and culture. NAMS’s strength is in our close collaboration with local tribes and Native organizations that ground and support the continuation of Indigenous knowledge systems. We offer service-learning opportunities that benefit both our college students and Native communities and provide students with an understanding of Indigenous communities’ long historical trajectories. Our local focus is strengthened through broad context, including academic inquiry into histories, contemporary issues, and cultures of Indigenous peoples in western North America, with a special emphasis in California.