Native Studies Programs at most universities are in with (Cultural) Anthropology departments. If you have an interest in indigenous peoples, consider majoring in Anthropology.
You call someone that studies metal a metallurgist.
what do you call somebody who studies snails.
The best place to get information about Program in Latin American studies is from libraries or from universities that study the subject as they will have a wide range of knowledge on the program.
a person who studies people but not an psychologist
a person who studies planets is a planetologist.
A Mycologist studies fungi.
A physicist.
A person who studies meteorology is a meteorologist.
A scientist that studies fungi is called a mycologist.
A person who studies genealogies is a genealogist.
A person who studies geography is called a geographer.
a person that studies gems is called a gemologist.