Dr. Warne, Master of Ceremonies for the Welcome Ceremony of Dr. Yellowbird, Director of Indigenous Tribal Studies

Welcoming Ceremony for Dr. Michael Yellowbird, the new Director of the Indigenous Tribal Studies with President Bresciani, Dean Sandstrom, and Dr. Warne (Master of Ceremonies). 

Dr. Michael Yellow Bird is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes, (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara). He joined the NDSU faculty in the fall of 2014. He has held faculty and/or academic administrative appointments at the University of British Columbia, University of Kansas, Arizona State University, and Humboldt State University. He is Professor and Director of the Tribal Indigenous Studies program at North Dakota State University.

His teaching, writing, research, and community work focus on Indigenous Peoples’ health, leadership, and cultural rights; the effects of colonization and methods of decolonization; decolonizing social work approaches; decolonizing war and military service; neurodecolonization and mind body approaches; neuroscience and Indigenous Peoples; traditional mindfulness and contemplative practices; ancestral and paleo eating and lifestyle; and the Rights of Mother Earth.