Spring Pow Wow 2019
American Indian Cultural House 2018
Mission
The Circle of Indigenous Nations recruits, retains, and graduates American Indian/First Nations/Alaskan Native students by promoting cultural values that help indigenous students become self-directed, excel academically, and succeed in all areas of individual matriculation, academic pursuits, and career aspirations. In addition, it strives to bridge the richness of the surrounding American Indian communities with the strengths of the University’s research, education, and teaching.
Culture & Goals
The Circle of Indigenous Nations fosters an environment that allows students to feel a sense of community on campus. It contributes to the strengthening and development of all students through culturally specific services and activities by:
- Developing quality programs that support Indigenous students
- Strengthening Indigenous students in their academic development
- Maintaining Indigenous cultural and individual identities
- Preserving and utilizing Indigenous history and culture
- Build effectiving relationships with campus resources
Services
For Ojibwe and Dakota Language Tutoring services have moved all online. Please email: coin@umn.edu
Advice & Support
For your academic, personal, and cultural goals
Career Information
For students seeking employment, internship, and volunteer opportunities
Elder In Residence
Connect with Elders in the community
Funding Opportunities
For students seeking scholarships, internships, and grants
The Land
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is built within the traditional homelands of the Daḳota people. Minnesota comes from the Daḳota name for this region, Mni Sota Maḳoce — "the land where the waters reflect the skies."
Each day students, faculty, staff and community members who use our services look out our windows to the Ḣaḣa Wakpa, the River of the Waterfalls.
The Circle of Indigenous Nations recognizes the original peoples of this place and makes ongoing efforts to educate the campus community about the ongoing relationship that Daḳota people have to this area.
-Iyekiyapiwiŋ Darlene St. Clair, Bdewakaŋtuŋwaŋ Daḳota
Contact Us
Monday - Friday | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
coin@umn.edu | 612-624-2555 | Fax: 612-626-7840
322 Appleby Hall, 128 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Dakota Sacred Sites Tours
What:
"We are living, learning, and working in a particular place with a long, fascinating, troubling, and frequently unknown story.
One goal for this tour is that participants begin to experience the place we live in as Mnisota Makoce, the Dakota homelands. We will be visiting several Dakota sacred sites located in an area that would later be called the Twin Cities.How has colonization impacted Dakota use and access to these places?
How have Dakota people asserted a continuing relationship with these places? This tour will provide participants with a more nuanced and complicated understanding of the place we call home."
– Iyekiyapiwin (Darlene St. Clair, Associate Professor, St. Cloud State University)
Please note that there will be some light walking on the tour. For disability accommodations, please email the Circle of Indigenous Nations at coin@umn.edu
Future Tours TBA
Interim Coordinator - Circle of Indigenous Nations
Raul Aguilar Jr.
He/Him/His | 322 Appleby Hall | (612)-624-2555 | raul@umn.edu
