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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...

Drummers sitting in a circle and striking a drum in the middle. Behind the drummers is a group of singers.

‘The land is our relative’: NAISA hosts second annual Pow Wow on Earth Day

April 24, 2023

Content warning: This article contains mentions of death and anti-Indigenous violence.  When the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance learned Earth Day was an option for its second annual...

Two students hold a banner reading “And yet we are still here” in front of the Rock.

NAISA reflects on anti-Indigenous hate on campus after Rock painting vandalized

November 9, 2021

Northwestern’s Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance gathered Thursday to paint The Rock in celebration of Native American Heritage Month for the first time in the organization’s history.  The...

A group of people hold onto a canoe as they walk away from the lake.

Artist and community members celebrate Anishinaabe heritage and creation of Birch bark canoe at Lake Michigan

October 31, 2021

For the first time in nearly 400 years, a birch bark canoe was reintroduced to the Chicago-area shore of Lake Michigan (Mishigami).  Only six Ojibwe birch bark canoe builders still exist in the Great...

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