CENTER FOR NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS RESEARCH

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.

In this week’s episode, Stefanie sits down with Dr. Beatriz Reyes to discuss reproductive justice as it relates to Indigenous communities.

Northwestern scholars help launch new exhibition at Chicago’s Field Museum to amplify the diverse voices of Native American and Indigenous people

Project is first NSF-funded Coastlines and People Hub for the Great Lakes region

Applications for CRES Undergraduate Fellowships have been posted and are due March, 11th; for more information, click here

A commemoration of "the first time in perhaps 180 years, a traditional Native American birch- bark canoe was launched into Lake Michigan"

An interview of CNAIR Affiliate Jennifer Dunn on the loss of traditional land and resources to mining and other extractive activities

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.

A multimedia website, created by students of Professor Patty Loew, chronicling Master Canoe Maker Wayne Valliere's time as artist-in-residence at CNAIR

Students learn from master canoe builder and artist-in-residence Wayne Valliere

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.

Danielle Johnson

Brianna Bilter

News from The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Ideas to adapt our cultural practices and love our people in new ways

Elena Bruess

Writer Natalie Rademacher @nrademacher1

Medill News Service/Northwestern University

“Unfolding Futures: Indigenous Ways of Knowing for the Twenty-First Century” New Dædalus Issue: Spring 2018

 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."