Northwestern University Center for Native American and Indigenous Research

Beautiful weekend with beautiful people to start a beautiful week with our elders-in-residence, Karen and Allen Washinawatok, in our beautiful teaching lodge made with loving hands and hopeful hearts! Come visit and say hello!

From May 2 through May 9, we will be welcoming back our elders-in-residence Karen and Allen Washinawatok (Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin) to share traditional knowledge and practices. This residency helps build relationships and connections beyond campus as we learn about land-based cultural practices and Indigenous education. We are also excited to build a teaching lodge as part of our programming! Be on the lookout for more information on a welcome breakfast, knowledge sharing, and the teaching lodge build!

We are ONE MONTH away from CNAIR’s 8th Annual Research Symposium!! We are so excited for you to join us April 9 and 10 at the Woman’s Club of Evanston, so be sure to register at bit.ly/2026-CNAIR-symposium! Also, don’t forget to add the community Welcome Reception to your calendar for April 8!

Join us next Thursday for our Winter Quarter Keynote conversation with the author of our winter NAIS book club selection, Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program, Caitlin Keliiaa! Keliiaa is an Associate Professor of History at UC-Santa Cruz, and she will be discussing the resilience of Native American women subjected to the Outing Program. Be sure to RSVP at bit.ly/winterkeynote!

We are so excited to invite you to join us for our first Composer-in-Residency presented in partnership with the Bienen School of Music’s Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Center for Native Futures, the Sound Arts and Industries program (School of Communication) and the Block Museum with RAVEN CHACON. There are multiple opportunities to engage with him and his work, but mark your calendars for the final CONCERT (Saturday, March 7th at 7pm), which will be performed in the Alice Millar Chapel. Please RSVP for the Welcome lunch and the Tiguex Talk by end of day on March 2, as we will have limited capacity!

This Saturday, join us to celebrate the breadth of emerging Indigenous research and knowledge at Northwestern! It will be a day of community and presentations to highlight our scholars and mentors, including undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students.

Join us Feb. 24 for our winter brown bag, “Walk This Way and Do It Like This,” presented by CNAIR postdoc Mere Taito! In this presentation, Mere will consider the overlapping, multi-functional roles of walking in everyday life and argue that these layered functions enact an Indigenous feminist understanding of intersectionality. RSVP here: bit.ly/wqbrownbag

We are TWO MONTHS away from CNAIR’s 8th Annual Research Symposium!! Join us April 9-10 for two packed days of celebrating Indigenous research at Northwestern and in Chicagoland! The RSVP registration link is now open at bit.ly/2026-CNAIR-symposium. We also wanted to take this opportunity to introduce you the two wonderful individuals chosen to be our keynote speakers this year: Dr. Eve Tuck of New York University and Dana Hedgpeth of The Washington Post. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]! Excited to see you all there!

The Winter Quarter NAIS book club has been RESCHEDULED to Tuesday, February 10! Please RSVP at bit.ly/NAISbcwinter if you haven’t already and you plan to join us!

Join us this coming Tuesday for the NAIS Winter Book Club! RSVP at bit.ly/NAISbcwinter if you plan to attend.