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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

Campus nature walk participants pause to appreciate the land and water where Northwestern was built. Northwestern lies on the lands of the Council of the Three Fires.

Combatting erasure: How to craft a Land Acknowledgement on Northwestern’s campus

November 16, 2020

“The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations,” Northwestern’s...

The Indigenous Lecture and Writing Series will present public lectures by Indigenous scholars and storytellers starting in May 2019.  Updated information about the lectures can be found on the series’ website.

New lecture, writing series aims to highlight Indigenous communities

April 4, 2019

Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago have established a new Indigenous Lecture & Writing Series in an effort to increase the visibility of Native American and Indigenous...

Gail Ridgely of the Arapaho speaks at a panel discussion Tuesday about John Evans’ role in the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864. Roughly 40 people attended the event, which was hosted by One Book One Northwestern.

Descendants of Sand Creek Massacre victims, John Evans’ relatives talk healing wounds

May 4, 2016

The Sand Creek Massacre was an atrocity, Anne Hayden said, and her great-great-grandfather John Evans was responsible. Hayden made that statement during a panel Tuesday beside members of the Cheyenne...

Doug Medin, faculty advisor to the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, attends a panel on historical trauma within Native American communities. Medin and NAISA are pushing to have Northwestern founder John Evans’ name removed from campus buildings and faculty positions due to his involvement in a massacre of Native Americans.

NAISA reintroduces John Evans petition at historical trauma panel

January 8, 2016

The Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance reintroduced a petition to have John Evans’ name removed from campus buildings at a historical trauma panel Thursday. The petition already sported...

Panelists discuss the historical trauma in Native American and other marginalized communities at a panel Thursday. Co-hosted by One Book One Northwestern and the Edith Kreeger Wolf Endowment in Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the event was tied to “The Inconvenient Indian,” this year’s One Book selection.

Panel discusses intergenerational impacts, healing tactics for historical trauma

January 8, 2016

Faculty members from U.S. universities dissected the collective historical trauma of Native American communities in a Thursday afternoon panel as part of a two-part event. The panel, co-hosted by the...

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