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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


The Mitchell Museum is rebranding to focus on Indigenous tribes in the Chicago and Great Lakes region. Their new mission involves education, advocacy and awareness about the tribes.

Mitchell Museum to rebrand, emphasize local Native cultures

February 21, 2024

At the end of last year, staff at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian found an eagle staff, a Native artifact made with eagle feathers and a deer antler, but couldn’t trace its origins, according...

A larger-than-life statue of a person wearing red holds a banner reading, “Colonial genocide of Indigenous women + children since 1862, before and after.”

Mitchell Museum’s ‘No Rest’ calls attention to epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women

March 6, 2023

Content warning: This article contains discussions of violence against Indigenous women. At the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian’s “No Rest: The Epidemic of Stolen Indigenous Women, Girls,...

The Mitchell Museum logo on top of a stack of books.

Mitchell Museum receives $20,000 grant to create localized K-12 Native studies curriculum

March 6, 2023

The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian received a $20,000 grant in late February to create a localized professional development curriculum about Native studies for Evanston K-12 educators.   The...

Green grass and plants in front of a red door of the Mitchell Museum

‘Connecting with Mother Earth’: Mitchell Museum to host film screening of ‘Inhabitants’

April 21, 2022

The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian is hosting a film screening of “Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World” and a virtual panel discussion with its filmmakers, Costa Boutsikaris...

The exterior of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.

Mitchell Museum welcomes three new Native American board members

February 21, 2022

The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian announced Wednesday three Native American community leaders in the Chicago area will join its board of directors.  This marks the first time the majority...

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