Center for Native American & Indigenous Research

On Friday, May 5th, members of the Northwestern community gathered to watch the hand-crafted wiigwaasi-jiimaan (birch bark canoe) take a trip into Lake Michigan. The canoe has been given a permanent home in the Segal Visitors Center lobby – be sure to take a visit soon!

Highlights from the Native & Indigenous community dinner! Congrats to graduates! Special honorees included Dr. Doug Kiel, 1st Native prof. to receive tenure while at NU, Dr. Megan Bang for her leadership & work in Indigenous education & Jasmine Gurneau for her contributions to NU

Some highlights from the CNAIR research symposium! instagram.com/p/Cscb66Urcrk/…

Our 6 CNAIR Fellow Posters will be back tomorrow at 11 AM along with 4 Community Posters! Total of 10 posters and presenters to learn from 👀 Swipe to see who is going to be at the open poster session!

Come out tomorrow! Friday 5/19! Indigenous Languages Panel at 9:30 followed by Woven Being project highlight at 10:30! Community poster session 11-12 — breakfast served at 8:30 🥞 🍳

Highlights from today’s research symposium! We will be back tomorrow starting with breakfast at 8:30 and Indigenous Languages panel at 9:30. instagram.com/p/CsZjw3WPfKJ/…

Day 1: We be hearing from our CNAIR Fellows and @ProfJosiah & @KimSuiseeya who will be discussing their research partnerships with Great Lakes Ojibwe tribes around manoomin (wild rice). Our day will conclude with a keynote from Dr. Audra Simpson 💜 see you there!

If there is trouble viewing the link there is an alternate here: If you are having trouble with the link above use this one: cnair.northwestern.edu/5th-annual-sym…

The CNAIR 5th Annual Research Symposium is Thursday May 18th & Friday May 19th. Both days 8:30 am - noon. View the full program here: canva.com/design/DAFjNHC…

Heeeey y'all! Just serendipitously ran into the freshly 🍃ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 👑 KIM SUISEEYA 🥇 at soccer on the *very* day she got #tenure! Let's congratulate her, richly deserved! @NUsociology @BuffettInst @WeinbergCollege @for_indigenous @KimSuiseeya @IPRatNU @NorthwesternU

Calling for poster submissions for the 5th Annual CNAIR Research Symposium 🗣️ Submit or encourage your students (grad & undergrad) to submit. Email to reserve a spot!

Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy of @ASU has been named dean of Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy (@sesp_nu), effective June 1. bit.ly/3TQG7ft

Thrilled to share our beautiful speakers for Peoples, Places, & Possibilities! Join @BryanBrayboy & I w/the honor&JOY to be alongside @eveewing @DeondreSmiles & Megan Bang! Food before & good laughs throughout. QR code below 4 registration. #stoodis #CultivatingBlackNativeFutures

Dr. Stephanie Fryberg’s talk & reception is postponed to April 7th! Please save the date! RSVP here to receive updates & additional details docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Today! Dr. Patty Loew at 555 Clark Room B01 - there is a zoom link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

How do Indigenous activist energies shape the urgent energy crises related to climate change? Hear from Indigenous scholars at the @KaplanHum and @for_indigenous ENERGIES Dialogue Winter Keynote on Feb. 23 at 6pm. Learn more: bit.ly/ENERGIES-23

Apply before March 10 for a summer undergraduate research grant, which provides one student with $4,000 to spend eight weeks in the summer doing research on campus focused on Native American and Indigenous Studies. libraries.nu/3wp8xSO @for_indigenous @NorthwesternU

Are you a faculty member working on an Indigenous focused project? Apply to the CNAIR Undergraduate Research Fellowship by Jan 27th! CNAIR awards can be used for leave extension, course release, or research funding (summer salary). Apply at bit.ly/cnair-faculty