Center for Native American and Indigenous Research

Fall Events

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CNAIR Brown Bag

Upcoming Events

Elders in Residence

Upcoming Events

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.

24-25 Annual Report

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.

NAIS MINOR COURSES

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.”

Read about the project and new Great Lakes region CoPe Hub

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.

Visit the Learning In Places Website