Welcome!
The mission of the Circle of Indigenous Nations at the University of Minnesota is to recruit,retain and graduate American Indian students The center works to achieve these goals by promoting cultural values that help American Indian students to become self directed, excel academically, and succeed in all areas of indivual matriculation, academic pursuits, and career aspirations. We have collaborative activities with other offices and programs on campus that support and teach American Indian students, such as the American Indian Studies Department, American Indian Student Cultural Center, American Indian Cultural House, University of Minnesota Council of Elders, U of M office of Admissions. We also are connected with the Twin Cities American Indian community & education programs. They participate in our annual powwows, pipe ceremonies, traditional storytelling events, and civic engagement programs.
American Indian Studies
Established in June of 1969, the Department of American Indian Studies is the oldest such program in the country with departmental status. Founded amidst the civil rights struggles of the sixties and early seventies, the program has long been committed to the development of theories and methodologies that reflect American Indian perspectives and it embraces ways of knowing that stand in contrast to the linear analytic Euro-American studies typically found in colleges and universities.
Continue to the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
MCAE and the Office for Equity and Diversity
The Circle of Indigenous Nations is part of the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence, a unit of the Office for Equity and Diversity .
Links within the University of Minnesota
Please click here for a listing of links to on-campus resources at the University of Minnesota.
Links to outside organizations
Please click here for a listing of links to tribal affairs, trical colleges, and a variety of American Indian and native information and media sources.