The North Wind

Native Art Workshop accepting participants

Akasha Khalsa • March 4, 2021

A collaboration between the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, the NMU Center for Native American Studies and the NMU School of Art and Design will result in the Great Lakes Indigenous Art, Education, and Healing Project, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Native American Student Association to hold open house

Akasha Khalsa • January 28, 2021

Those interested in getting involved at the Native American Student Association can attend an upcoming open house for students.

Special topics course teaches Indigenous Star Knowledge for first time

Katarina Rothhorn • September 22, 2020

Professor Aimee Cree Dunn has developed a variety of Indigenous environmental studies classes including "Awesiinh: Wild Animal Relations," "Indigenous Environmental Movements," and "Kinomaage: The...

Symposium brings tribal issues to forefront

Akasha Khalsa • November 7, 2019

Tribal administrators, acad-emics, students and a former presidential assistant convened to exchange ideas and research on issues facing Native American populations in the U.P. for a day-long conference. The...

State grant funds Anishinaabe language project

Mary McDonough • October 10, 2019

A recent grant from Michigan’s Native American Heritage Fund (NAHF) gave NMU’s Center for Native American Studies (CNAS) almost $135,000 to help build a variety of different programs of study. CNAS...

A window into two years of diversity efforts, part one of a three-part series: Officer of diversity starts with Native studies department

Jamie Glenn & Winter Keefer • January 18, 2018

It has been almost two years since the position of chief diversity and inclusion officer was added to the NMU administration. The current chief diversity and inclusion officer, Jessica Cruz, has been...

Native Studies partners with social work to bring new pilot program combining both

Trevor Drew • November 2, 2017

Federal government studies suggest American Indian women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than women of other races or ethnicities. While women as a whole have a 1-in-5...