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2022
December 6, 2022 – from American Indian Center
Just in time for Native American Heritage Month, the American Indian Center (AIC) has received a federal grant of over $1 million for its Indigenous food sovereignty project.
December 6, 2022 – from She Really Gets It Podcast
In this week’s episode, Stefanie sits down with Dr. Beatriz Reyes to discuss reproductive justice as it relates to Indigenous communities.
December 6, 2022 – from Northwestern News
Northwestern scholars help launch new exhibition at Chicago’s Field Museum to amplify the diverse voices of Native American and Indigenous people
September 2, 2022 – from Northwestern Now
Project is first NSF-funded Coastlines and People Hub for the Great Lakes region
CNAIR's 4th Annual Research Symposium
April 8, 2022
On May 6th, from 10:00am-3:00pm, the symposium will present a panel featuring CNAIR graduate fellows, whose disciplines range from environmental engineering to sociology, along with a panel featuring CNAIR faculty affiliates; they will be sharing their work from this past year. Please register for the event to receive an email with the Zoom link NAISA's First Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow: Honoring the Matriarchy
April 8, 2022
Please join the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA) on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 at the First Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow: Honoring the Matriarchy. This event is open to all and is a space for Native and non-Native people to gather together to dance, eat, socialize, share art, be in community, and much more.
Applications Council for Race and Ethnic Studies Undergraduate Fellowships 2022-23
February 12, 2022
Applications for CRES Undergraduate Fellowships have been posted and are due March, 11th; for more information, click
hereFebruary 7, 2022 – from Northwestern Winter 2022
A commemoration of "the first time in perhaps 180 years, a traditional Native American birch- bark canoe was launched into Lake Michigan"
February 3, 2022
February 3, 2022 – from Mi'kmaq Matters Podcast
An interview of CNAIR Affiliate Jennifer Dunn on the loss of traditional land and resources to mining and other extractive activities
January 30, 2022 – from Herald and News
Here's a new four-part series, exploring the water crisis in Oregon’s Klamath Basin, by former CNAIR fellow and Medill alum Alex Schwartz. Last year Alex received a journalism fellowship through MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative. He regularly covers stories for the Klamath Falls Herald and News that affect tribal communities in the Pacific Northwest. In his series “Project Klamath” he integrates Native origin stories, tribal ecological knowledge, and impacts into his broader investigation.
January 29, 2022 – from The Daily Northwestern
January 23, 2022
A multimedia website, created by students of Professor Patty Loew, chronicling Master Canoe Maker Wayne Valliere's time as artist-in-residence at CNAIR
2021
November 12, 2021 – from The Daily Northwestern
November 12, 2021 – from Native News Online
November 10, 2021 – from North by Northwestern
November 9, 2021 – from The Daily Northwestern
November 7, 2021
November 1, 2021 – from WTTW
November 1, 2021 – from Northwestern Now
Students learn from master canoe builder and artist-in-residence Wayne Valliere
November 1, 2021 – from WBEZ Chicago
An indigenous canoe builder and artist at Northwestern led a year-long project to build a birchbark canoe and help preserve the Native American art form.
October 29, 2021 – from Chicago Tribune
October 29, 2021 – from Native News Online
October 21, 2021 – from CBS Chicago
October 21, 2021 – from Native News Online
September 3, 2021 – from School of Education and Social Policy
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May 21, 2021 – from The Daily Northwestern
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March 16, 2021 – from www.naeducation.org
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January 6, 2021 – from Indian Country Today
Danielle Johnson
2020
December 31, 2020 – from The Progressive
Brianna Bilter
December 17, 2020 – from Stories from the Block
News from The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
November 17, 2020 – from The Daily Northwestern
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November 11, 2020 – from The Daily Northwestern
November 10, 2020 – from Native American Journalists Association
November 5, 2020 – from https://speakingofgeoscience.org/
October 31, 2020 – from Alumni Relations and Development
October 13, 2020 – from The Daily Northwestern
October 13, 2020 – from The Daily Northwestern
September 23, 2020 – from Great Lakes Spirituality Project
September 11, 2020
September 9, 2020 – from Northwestern Now
August 30, 2020 – from The Daily Northwestern
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May 6, 2020 – from Northwestern Now
March 23, 2020 – from Urban Indian Health Institute
Ideas to adapt our cultural practices and love our people in new ways
March 16, 2020 – from Indigenous Motherhood
2019
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November 18, 2019 – from The Daily Northwestern
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November 17, 2019 – from The Daily Northwestern
November 13, 2019 – from The Daily Northwestern
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October 18, 2019 – from Medill Reports Chicago
Elena Bruess
October 14, 2019 – from The Daily Northwestern
October 14, 2019 – from The Daily Northwestern
October 8, 2019 – from The Earther
September 30, 2019
September 9, 2019 – from Ensia
Writer Natalie Rademacher @nrademacher1
August 22, 2019 – from Northwestern Now
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2018
November 6, 2018 – from Northwestern Now
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November 2, 2018 – from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
October 31, 2018
October 19, 2018 – from Medill Reports Chicago
Medill News Service/Northwestern University
July 2, 2018
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April 2, 2018
“Unfolding Futures: Indigenous Ways of Knowing for the Twenty-First Century” New Dædalus Issue: Spring 2018
February 20, 2018 – from The Progressive
January 29, 2018 – from Northwestern Now
January 24, 2018 – from Block Museum of Art Video
2017
CNAIR Faculty Affiliate Lectures at Field Museum
December 13, 2017
Doug Kiel participated in the Armour Seminar Series at the Field Museum on December 13, 2017.
His talk was titled: "Oneida Nation v. Village of Hobart: Indigenous Land Recovery and Settler Backlash."
November 16, 2017
November 14, 2017 – from Edge Effects
October 20, 2017 – from Weinberg College
October 10, 2017 – from The Daily Northwestern
September 29, 2017 – from The Daily Northwestern
September 27, 2017 – from The Daily Northwestern
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2016
December 17, 2016 – from Weinberg College
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2015
October 22, 2015 – from Weinberg College
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