Event Engagement Opportunities
Learn from our partnered departments in Office of Community Enrichment for info about Native American Heritage Month OR apply for a cosponsorship!
30 Days of Indigenous
Planning an event? Apply for cosponsorship
We provide opportunities for cosponsored events that align with our mission, vision, goals, and values. Please apply for a cosponsorship if you are seeking funding, wanting to integrate Indigenous knowledges/methods, or want us to circulate an event you are planning.
2024-2025 Annual Report
We're so excited to welcome back our community this fall! We hope this NEW annual report will give our community and visitors a glimpse of what we have been up to this past year.
2025-2026 CNAIR Fellows
Research and Scholarship Highlights
NAIS Courses: Indigenous Feminisms
Native/Indigenous Feminisms are key to understanding settler colonial societies like the United States and Canada. As a field of study, Native/Indigenous Feminisms analytically centers Indigenous sovereignty to understand how settler colonialism evolved to displace Indigenous peoples politically and within their own lands. This course will examine the historical formation and dynamics of settler colonialism to elucidate how it has shaped the lives of all people living within settler societies. Counts towards NAIS minor.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.”
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
Events
Jan
20
2026
NAIS Book Club Winter Meeting
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Come join us for the Native American and Indigenous Studies book club! At our Winter Quarter meeting, we will be discussing Caitlin Kel...
Feb
21
2026
Celebrating Emerging Indigenous Research and Knowledge at Northwe...
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, No Location
This event will bring together emerging scholars to engage with the breadth of Indigenous research being conducted at Northwestern. The...
Feb
24
2026
Winter Quarter CNAIR Brown Bag
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, No Location
Mere Taito, inaugural 2025-27 Postdoctoral Scholar Born in Fiji, Mere is originally from the island of Rotuma, having strong ancestral ...