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Northwestern is a community of learners situated within a network of historical and contemporary relationships with Native American tribes, communities, parents, students, and alumni. It is also in close proximity to an urban Native American community in Chicago and near several tribes in the Midwest. The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations. It was also a site of trade, travel, gathering, and healing for more than a dozen other Native tribes and is still home to over 100,000 tribal members in the state of Illinois.  Visit this page for more resources on Land Acknowledgments at Northwestern University. The Collective respectfully acknowledges the traditional and unceded territories of the Ojibwe and others across Turtle Island where many of our community and team members reside and carry out their work.

The STRONG Manoomin Collective is stewarded by two Co-Directors, currently Dr. Kim Marion Suiseeya, Northwestern University, located in Evanston, IL and Dr. Josiah Hester, Georgia Institute of Technology, located in Atlanta, GA, and a team of knowledge holders, scientists, educators, and partners across the Upper Great Lakes region. We are housed in the Center for Water Research at the Northwestern Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering (NAISE) on Northwestern's campus in Evanston, IL. 

As we build out the STRONG Manoomin Collective we hope to connect with current and potential partners who share an interest in advancing sovereignty and self-determination as key climate resilience solutions. If you are interested in working with us, please contact us here or email the PI of the project.

If you have questions, concerns,  or feedback, please reach us here.