The Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations is the first section in the 115 years of the American Sociological Association that provides an official space for scholarship on Indigenous sociology. The purpose of this section is to advance scholarship to address the erasure of Indigenous Peoples within the discipline and resist the settler-colonialist foundations of sociology. In doing so, we challenge the illusion that "colonialism happens elsewhere," while still attending to decolonial struggles of Indigenous Peoples globally. The Section encourages and promotes research and teaching with, by, and for Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations. Any member of the American Sociological Association, regardless of rank or institutional affiliation, who shares these research or teaching interests is encouraged to join.
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For information about the section, or ways to become involved, please contact any of the section officers. ​

​SECTION LEADERSHIP
Chair: 
Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear
University of California, Los Angeles
desisr@soc.ucla.edu

Co-Chair:
Angela Ann Gonzales
Arizona State University
aagonz31@asu.edu

Section Secretary/Treasurer:
Kari Marie Norgaard
University of Oregon 
norgaard@uoregon.edu

​Student Representative:
Carmela Marie Roybal
University of New Mexico 
cmoral7@unm.edu

​These are challenging times.
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It would be too pat to write that sociology – or social theory, more particularly – has ready answers to the “double pandemic” of public health and racial injustice that has dramatically and suddenly reshaped our world in the past few months. Or to suggest, with only slightly less hubris, that sociologists are uniquely positioned to understand the complex, intertwining strands that brought us to this moment. But I do think that sociology in general – and social theory in particular – has something to offer. Namely, social theory provides a certain orientation to the social world and its many paradoxes than can be helpful in directing our attention (and ultimately our actions) productively, as well as allowing us to tolerate forms of suffering wrought by the double pandemic that for some of us are new and unprecedented and for others deeply, distressingly familiar.