Beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year, and for the next decade, our theme is Indigenous Futures: 100 Years Back, 100 Years Forward. It has been 100 years since the 
6th Annual Research Symposium
Registration Now Open! | Open Call for Posters & Roundtables due April 26th
Spring 2024 Events
Project Highlights
Strengthening Resilience of Manoomin
A Northwestern University-led research team has received a $5 million grant from NSF to develop new methods to help mitigate the effects of climate change on the Great Lakes and its surrounding natural ecosystems." This project began with relationship building and a willingness by Northwestern researchers to step back and invite our Indigenous partners to frame the research,” said Patty Loew (Mashkiiziibii-Bad River Ojibwe, CNAIR Inaugural Director). ..“The result is a project that is both meaningful and respectful to our tribal collaborators.”
Tribal Constitutions
Northwestern CNAIR Affiliates and Professor of Law Erin Delaney and Northwestern Assistant Professor of Sociology Beth Red Bird work together on The Tribal Constitutions Project. Delaney and Redbird started the Constitutions Project in order to examine the evolution of tribal sovereignty through over 2000 tribal constitutions from over 300 tribal nations from the last 150 years.
Learning In Places
Despite the growing awareness of socio-ecological challenges facing humans in the 21st century, science learning still mostly takes place inside the classroom, disconnected from the natural world. The University of Washington Bothell Goodlad Institute for Educational Renewal, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, Tilth Alliance and Seattle Public Schools are partnering to change this status quo and create more culturally and community relevant, field-based learning opportunities for students.
Events and News
Annual Reports
Read the 2022-23 Annual Report
Events
May
9
2024
Legal Studies Law in Motion Talk with Sarah Deer - University of ...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Join us on May 9, 2024, as we welcome Sarah Deer from the University of Kansas. As our keynote speaker for our annual Law in Motion lec...
May
16
2024
6th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spr...
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Off-Campus
6th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spring Symposium
May
17
2024
6th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spr...
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Off-Campus
6th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spring Symposium