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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern students, professors and community members stand on a beach silhouetted against the sunset.

NAISA celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day with sunrise and sunset gatherings

October 11, 2022

Northwestern’s Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance centered laughter and community in its Indigenous Peoples Day celebration Monday.  Ten people attended NAISA’s Sunrise Ceremony at...

Man with long hair holds a wooden flute in a park.

Chicago activists push to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 10, 2022

Around 60 community members, activists and volunteers convened at Pottawattomie Park in Rogers Park on Monday to voice support for the renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Chicago and...

An illustration of three people standing in front of a setting sun. Behind them is a lake that reflects the sun.

Not invisible: Students create solidarity and community in NAISA

February 20, 2022

As the sun rose on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, vivid oranges from the sky reflected off the lake and the faces of the students gathered there. While the students from the Native American and Indigenous...

Ortiz: Americans deserve more holidays

Ortiz: Americans deserve more holidays

December 1, 2021

Being a Northwestern student, in most cases, is an exercise in pain.  We work ourselves to the bone by taking complex, intellectually challenging classes with our only long-term reprieves coming during...

A young woman in a handmade dress dances as two men beat hand drums and a woman in white sings. In the background is a crowd, including a child on top of his father’s shoulders.

Chicago’s Indigenous community, politicians rally for recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 12, 2021

Drum beats and incantations rang out Monday morning in Pottawattomie Park while Marissa Garcia, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, performed a healing dance called a “jingle dance”...

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