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The Daily Northwestern

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


Jasmine Gurneau, director of Native American and Indigenous Affairs, discussed the Native American and Indigenous Strategic Plan at the Segal Visitors Center.

Native American and Indigenous Initiatives hosts Native American and Indigenous Strategic Plan kickoff

October 3, 2024

Megan Bang, the director of Northwestern’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, would have never let her children apply to NU 10 years ago.  The reason? NU’s lack of Indigenous...

A record-breaking turnout of over 1,000 students and community members attended the Pow Wow in Welsh-Ryan Arena on Saturday.

NAISA hosts third annual Pow Wow in honor of the water

April 28, 2024

The rhythmic sounds of drumming, singing and jingling reverberated within Welsh-Ryan Arena as the third annual Pow Wow, organized by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, took place Saturday.  A...

The Northwestern campus is located on the ancestral lands of the Council of the Three Fires, Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations.

Native American and Indigenous community amplifies land acknowledgement dialogue

February 14, 2024

After Weinberg junior Athena GoingSnake marched through The Arch alongside hundreds of her classmates during Wildcat Welcome, she was surprised to hear speakers read a land acknowledgment. GoingSnake,...

According to the Illinois Report Card, 0.3% of students at ETHS identified as American Indian in the 2022–23 school year.

Indigenous ETHS students call for increased efforts toward representation, acceptance

November 20, 2023

Content warning: This story contains mentions of racism. In May 2022, Miigis Curley, a senior at Evanston Township High School, started a petition for her school to allow students to wear culturally...

A drawing of a person with long hair and many necklaces.

Tracing the path of the tribes who call Evanston home

May 25, 2023

Before Evanston was founded in 1863, tribal nations including the Potawatomi, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Myaamia (or Miami), Wea, Kiikaapoi (or Kickapoo) and Mascouten called the land home.  When settlers...

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