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4. Indigenous Events

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  • Men's Talking Circle

    Jan 29, 2020 2:00 pm
    • Date: February 5, 2020
    • Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
    • Location: American Indian Center

  • A Winter Night of Indigenous Telling Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

    Jan 29, 2020 2:45 pm
    • Date: January 30, 2020
    • Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    • Location:  Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

  • Indigenous Peoples’ Day Training

    Jan 29, 2020 2:45 pm
    • Date: February 1, 2020
    • Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
    • Location: American Indian Center

     

  • Incident at Oglala Film Screening

    Jan 29, 2020 2:45 pm
    • Date: February 2, 2020
    • Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    • Location: The American Indian Center

  • AIC Annual Meeting

    Jan 29, 2020 3:00 pm
    • Date: February 8, 2020
    • Time: 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    • Location: American Indian Center

  • Valentine Bingo

    Jan 29, 2020 4:45 pm

    Come out and enjoy a day of fun bingo with our Young Native Leaders!

  • Flyer for Event

    The Indigenous Poetteller’s Workshop

    Jan 29, 2020 7:00 pm
    • Date: January 29, 2020
    • Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Location: American Indian Center

  • Festival Of Stories

    Jan 30, 2020 10:15 am
    • Date: February 28, 2020
    • Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Location: Ho-Chunk Chicago Branch Office

     

  • Roots of Knowledge

    Jan 30, 2020 10:15 am
    • Date: February 22, 2020
    • Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Location: Smithsonian Exhibit and Trickster Garden learning space

  • Love Should Be Sweet

    Jan 30, 2020 10:15 am
    • Date: February 12, 2020
    • Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Location: American Indian Health Services of Chicago

  • FREE Meditation Services

    Jan 30, 2020 10:30 am

    Do you have a conflict with a neighbor, landlord or tenant, family member, co-parent, small business, client colleague? 

    Visit us! https://www.ccrchicago.org/

  • Call For Survey Participation

    Jan 30, 2020 10:30 am
    • Are you a boarding school survivor?
    • Do you have boarding school history in your family? 
    • Have you been adopted or placed in foster care? 

  • Native Youth and Adult Talking Circle

    Jan 30, 2020 10:30 am
    • Date: January 27, 2019
    • Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Location:  4326 Montrose Ave. Chicago IL. 60641

  • Tribal Voices in the 2020 Elections

    Jan 30, 2020 10:30 am
    • Date: 2/6/2020
    • Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
    • Location: McCormick Foundation Center, 1870 Campus Drive Room 3-119

  • California Indian Manpower Consortium

    Jan 30, 2020 10:30 am

    The CIMC Workforce Development Program provides job training and employment opportunities for low-income, unemployed and underemployed Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian individuals residing in our service area. 

  • Indigenous Lecture & Writing Series Workshop

    Jan 30, 2020 10:45 am
    • Date: January 30, 2020
    • Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    • Location: Rebecca Crown Center - West Tower, Hardin Hall 633 Clark Street Evanston, IL

  • Urban Native Education Conference

    Jan 30, 2020 10:45 am

    Save the Date: Saturday May 2, 2020

  • American Indian Health Service of Chicago

    Jan 30, 2020 10:45 am

    A new clinic has opened in the neighborhood and is accepting new patients. Schedule your appointment today!

  • Youth and Elders Circle

    Jan 31, 2020 10:30 am
    • Date: 2/7/2020
    • Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
    • Location: Ho-Chunk Nation Office

  • CNAIR February Events

    Jan 31, 2020 10:30 am

    The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research is Northwestern University’s primary institutional space dedicated to advancing scholarship, teaching, learning, and artistic or cultural practices related to Native American and Indigenous communities, priorities, histories, and lifeways.

  • Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Education Conference

    Feb 4, 2020 10:00 am

    Date: May 2, 2020

    Location: UIC Halsted

  • Field Museum Community Events: Save the Dates!!

    Feb 6, 2020 11:45 am

    Community Town Hall Meeting

    Field Museum Native American Hall Renovation

    Saturday, February 29

    11:30 am - 3:00 pm

    Will begin promptly at Noon

    St Kateri Center/St. Ben's Beaven Hall

    2215 W. Irving Park

    Open to all in the Native community

    Lunch will be provided Native American Hall Renovation Updates/Design Preview Meet Chicago advisory group Q&A with Field Museum staff and Chicago advisory group Opportunity to provide feedback Please RSVP so we know how much to cater

    To RSVP or for more information, contact Debra at dyepapappan@fieldmuseum.org or 312.665.7315

     

    Apsáalooke Women and Warriors Exhibition

    at the Field Museum

    Exclusive Preview for Native Community

    Sunday Afternoon, March 8

    See the exhibition before it opens to the public!

    More details to follow.

    An invitation will be sent out within the next few weeks. RSVP will be required.

  • Settler Love is Breaking My Heart

    Feb 6, 2020 2:45 pm

    Date: 02/10/2020

    Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

    Location: Foster/107

    RSVP Required: See Attached Flyer

  • David Treuer

    Feb 11, 2020 4:15 pm

    The American Writers Museum will be hosting an event with Ojibwe author, David Treuer on Friday, February 14th at 10:00a.m.

    David Treuer is a bestselling author from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. This special event will discuss his latest work, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, a sweeping history — and counter-narrative — of Native-American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.At the event, you will have an opportunity to learn more about Treuer’s book and ask questions after his presentation.

    RSVP with our program to attend for FREE- email Lisa at LkbernaL@cps.edu to be added to our guest list. Please note, we will not be providing any travel accommodations.

  • Help Support Chicago's Indigenous Peoples' Day Ordinance

    Feb 11, 2020 4:15 pm

    Show your support by sharing, downloading and posting graphics on social media, writing a letter of support (a template is available in the link below), and go read more about Chicago’s city-wide ordinance to make the second Monday of October Indigenous Peoples Day and abolish Columbus Day!READ MORE HERE: https://aicchicago.org/indigenous-peoples-day/

     

  • 4th Annual Urban Native Education Conference @ UIC

    Feb 11, 2020 4:15 pm

    The Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative’s Education Committee invites you to attend the 4th annual Urban Native Education Conference. The theme of the 4th annual Urban Native Education Conference is Indigenous Futures 2020. The organizers of this conference are situated in Native Chicago, by which they mean that their focus, research, teaching, and service is working for and with American Indian people and communities in the Chicago area. With more than 70% of the Indigenous population of the U.S. living primarily in urban settings, it is clear that urban Indian education is a significant issue.

    We invite proposals for sessions that address the conference theme. The audience for this conference includes Indigenous educators, scholars, youth, elders, and community members. Please submit proposals by Friday, February 28, 2020. Accept/decline notifications will be sent to the email used in the proposal process by Friday, March 20, 2020.

    Submit a Proposal

    Schedule:

    Friday, May 1, 2020, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Indigenous Networking Social

    Saturday, May 2, 2020, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Main Conference

    *schedule subject to slight changes while confirming sessions

    Registration is now open. The cost to register is free. Space is limited so please register in advance to secure your spot!

    Register to Attend the Conference!

     

  • Decolonizing Healthcare

    Feb 15, 2020 7:15 pm
    • Date: March 4, 2020
    • Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Location: Hardin Hall 633 Clark St Northwestern

  • Whose Lakefront (2020) Participatory Public Art Project

    Feb 17, 2020 8:00 am

    Please see attached flyer for info:

  • Ceremony A Place For Gender, Sexuality, & Indigeneity

    Feb 17, 2020 8:45 am
    • Date: March 4, 2020
    • Time: 12:00-1:30PM
    • Location: Guild Lounge (601 University Pl) Northwestern

  • Field Museum Town hall Meeting

    Feb 19, 2020 9:00 am

    Hello Everyone,

    there will be a Town Hall meeting on  February 29th from 11:30-3:00pm, at St. Kateri Center/St. Ben's Beaven Hall, 2215 W. Irving Park Rd. We will be discussing the Native American Hall Renovation Updates/Design Overview, Meet Chicago advisory group, Q&A with Field Museum staff and Chicago advisory group, Opportunity to provide feedback. Lunch will be provided. Limited parking available in parking lot behind the church, accessible from Bell St.For more information, please contact Debra Yepa-Pappan, Community Engagement Coordinator, at dyepapappan@fieldmuseum.org is

    Please RSVP by clicking on the link below. Please share this link and invite with anyone interested in attending.

    Thank you,

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VxLJE5aaGPOBw2VVXqpeTip596sIQLUfVHFOUTCurto/edit?ts=5e4c2a88

  • Smoke Signals American Indian Center

    Feb 20, 2020 12:00 pm

    SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

    The AIC Smoke Signals Newsletter 

    To receive the Smoke Signals Newsletter, please register to become an AIC Member today!

    Register here: http://aic-chicago.org/?page_id=1306

  • Film Screening: Drunktown's Finest

    Feb 20, 2020 12:45 pm

    In the third installment of the First Nations Film and Video Festival, we feature a screening of Sydney Freeland’s coming-of-age drama Drunktown’s Finest (2014).

    On the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people—a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous and gorgeous trans person—search for love and acceptance.

    As the three find their lives becoming more complicated and their troubles growing, their paths begin to intersect. With little in common other than a shared heritage, they soon learn that the key to overcoming their respective obstacles may come from the most unlikely of sources: each other.

    Inspired by a 20/20 story that called her hometown of Gallup, NM, “Drunktown USA,” writer/director Sydney Freeland has constructed a moving and ultimately uplifting story about coming of age in the most challenging of circumstances while still finding hope, healing, and the chance for a better life.

    The film will be followed by a discussion with Northern Arapaho filmmaker Ernest Whiteman III, Director of the First Nations Film and Video Festival.

  • Zona Abierta: Apsáalooke Women and Warriors

    Feb 20, 2020 2:30 pm

    Zona Abierta: Apsáalooke Women and Warriors

     

    Presented by the UIC Latino Cultural Center, the Native American Support Program, and the Women's Leadership and Resource Center

    As part of UIC's Women's History Month Celebration, join us for a conversation with four women from the great Apsáalooke Crow Nation – as they share their Native perspectives – and talk about Apsáalooke ways, people, and their work. Apsáalooke Women and Warriors exhibition is jointly organized by the Field Museum and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago, opening at both sites in March 2020.

    • When: Thurs. March 12, 2020
    • Time: 1pm to 2:30pm
    • Where: LCC – Lecture Center B2

  • St. Kateri Center of Chicago

    Feb 25, 2020 2:00 pm

    Date: 5/16/2020

    Time: Doors open at 10:30 AM and Grand Entry at 12PM and 5 PM

    Location: St. Benedict Gymnasium 

  • Class of 2020 Achievement Celebration

    Feb 25, 2020 2:00 pm
    • Date: 6/13/2020
    • Time: 12-3 PM
    • Location: Mexican Museum of Fine Arts

  • American Indian Center Chicago Inter-Tribal Youth Summer Program

    Feb 25, 2020 2:00 pm

    PLease see attached flyer

  • Young Native Leaders, Save the Dates

    Feb 25, 2020 2:30 pm

    Please see attached flyer. 

  • Vaping. What;s It All About

    Feb 25, 2020 2:30 pm
    • Date: 3/7/2020
    • Time: 12 PM
    • Location: St. Kateri Center

  • Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

    Feb 25, 2020 2:30 pm
    • Date: 2/29/2020
    • Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
    • Location: Mitchel Museum of the American Indian

  • St. Kateri Prayer Circle

    Feb 25, 2020 2:45 pm

    Please see attached flyer. 

  • American Indian Center Annual Meeting

    Feb 25, 2020 2:45 pm
    • Date: 3/1/2020
    • Time: 2-5 PM
    • Location: American Indian Center

  • March Senior Lunch American Indian Center

    Feb 25, 2020 2:45 pm
    • Date: 3/4/2020
    • Time: 12 - 2PM
    • Location: American Indian Center

  • Youth and Elder Subcommittee Meeting

    Feb 25, 2020 2:45 pm

    Date: 3/6/2020

    Time: 6:00 - 8:15PM

    Location: Ho-Chunk Office

  • Raging Film

    Feb 25, 2020 2:45 pm
    • Date: 3/12/2020
    • Time: 6:00-8:30 PM
    • Location: American Indian Center 

  • American Indian Center Fundraising and Silent Auction

    Feb 25, 2020 2:45 pm
    • Date: 3/18/2020
    • TIme: 6 - 9 PM
    • Location: Newberry Library 

  • Chicago River Nibi (Water) Walk

    Feb 25, 2020 2:45 pm
    • Date: 3/22/2019
    • Time: 9 - 7 PM
    • Location: See flyer for details

  • Indigenous STEAM Summer Camp

    Mar 3, 2020 11:15 am

    For Native American and Indigenous Youth entering grades 1-12

    LABACH WOODS, CHICAGO

    FREE!  Snacks and lunch provided - Extended dropoff/pickup:  8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • Tommy Orange reading from There There on April 23, at the American Indian Center

    Mar 4, 2020 5:30 pm

    In collaboration with the American Indian Center and other partners, CNAIR is excited to host the Cheyenne and Arapaho writer Tommy Orange for a reading and discussion of his novel There There on April 23, at the American Indian Center of Chicago.  Space is limited, so please register for the event here:  https://tinyurl.com/vyna3fb.

    Busses will run from Northwestern to the AIC and back, departing at 4:30 and returning by 9 PM.  Please sign up here http://bit.ly/2PN9kYH if you’d like to reserve a seat on the bus.

    CNAIR partners will host discussions of There There across campus in early April—stay tuned for details.

    Thanks to Northwestern’s Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Litowitz MFA + MA Profram, Multicultural Student Affairs, and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion for partnering with us on this event.

  • St. Kateri Center Mass

    Mar 4, 2020 5:45 pm

    Mass:

    • Date: 3/8/20202 and 3/22/2020
    • Time: 11:00AM
    • Location: Kateri Center

  • Job Announcement Executive Assistant American Indian Health Service of Chicago

    Mar 5, 2020 1:45 pm

    American Indian Health Service of Chicago has a position open.  If you are interested open the attachments.