The Native American Educational Services College was an institution of higher education led by and serving Native Americans. It offered a BA in public policy within a curriculum that combined academic
Students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania (c. 1900)
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The American Indian Center of Chicago is the oldest urban Native American center in the United States. It provides social services, youth and senior programs, cultural learning, and meeting opportunit
Native American Educational Services College
…but cultural assimilation was no longer listed as a goal. In 1969, the Native American Committee formed as an activist group,meeting at Chicago's American Indian Center (AIC), its initial impetus being to support the Occupation of Alcatraz. Many of its members, were also members of an American Indian community wide…
American Indian Center interior in the former home of the AIC in Uptown (1966-2018). Photo by Eric Allix Rogers, courtesy of the NAES College Collection at the Northwestern University Libraries