Member Institutions

• Cornell University
• Harvard University
• Miami University of Ohio
• Michigan State University
• Princeton University
• University of British Columbia
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Minnesota
• University of Montana
• University of New Mexico
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
• University of Wyoming
• Vanderbilt University

Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies

At the end of its partnership with the thirteen Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities in June 2008, the Newberry Library inaugurated a new Consortium in American Indian Studies. NCAIS began accepting members in the summer and launched the programs in July 2009. The consortium draws on the Newberry Library's world-renowned collections in American Indian and Indigenous studies and the resources of the McNickle Center to offer a series of annual workshops, institutes, symposiums, conferences and fellowships to graduate students and faculty at member institutions. Membership in the new Newberry Consortium will be limited to 18 institutions and is currently being offered to universities in the United States and Canada.

Black Horse Ledger, Ayer Collection, Newberry Library

• Links

• NCAIS Fellows
• Faculty Fellowship for 2011-2012
• Graduate Student Fellowships for 2011-2012
• Recent Programs

• Consortium Resources

• The Newberry Library 
• Harvard University Archives
• Huntington Free Library
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
• Princeton Collections of Western Americana

Program Announcements

2010 Summer Institute July 26 - August 20,  2010
"Teasing Indian Agency, Tribal Voice, and Persistence from the Record "
Prof. Cary Miller, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of History
Prof. David Beck, University of Montana, Department of Native American Studies

This course will examine Indian responses to federal Indian policy in the 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on the roles that tribal leaders and tribes played in shaping that policy. Despite the handicap of working from positions of weakness through much of this time period, tribal leaders worked hard, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, to proactively and reactively shape the futures of their communities in political, social and economic terms. Teasing Indian agency and voice from the record can be difficult, but is not only possible, but increasingly central to studies of tribal communities and individuals. Students will be encouraged to find ways to incorporate Indian agency, tribal voice, and tribal persistence into their own work, no matter the subject or time period. Field trips to the Federal Archives, the Marquette University Archives, the Wisconsin Historical Society (in Madison or Milwaukee Branch) and the Field Museum of Natural History may be included. Download syllabus here (PDF Document).

NCAIS Summer Seminar Participants