The Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Education Subcommittee is proud to present:

FIFTH ANNUAL URBAN NATIVE EDUCATION CONFERENCE:
Living Our Values Towards Health & Healing

May 14-15, 2021
Sessions From: 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CT)

CAICC Education Subcommittee is proud to present the:

FIFTH ANNUAL URBAN NATIVE EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Conference Dates: 05/14 - 05/15
Sessions From: 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CT)

In order to increase access, our conference is free to all attendees, but you must register in advance. On-demand video content will be closed captioned and live captioning will be provided for all synchronous conference sessions.

The Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative (CAICC) is pleased to announce the 2021 Fifth Annual Urban Native Education Conference on May 14-15, 2021. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the conference will be held virtually over Zoom.

Our conference theme this year is Living Our Values Towards Health & Healing. The theme acknowledges the ways in which our values shape and support our individual, family and communities’ health, wellbeing and healing, specifically during a pandemic. Our communities have a deep history of organizing to support each other in times of crisis. This past year presented numerous opportunities for us to work together. More than ever before, we were called upon to re-imagine and create new possibilities for connecting and supporting one another.

At the core of many Native American and Indigenous communities are the values known as the 4 R’s – relationships, reciprocity, responsibility, and respect. In what ways do these values influence how we build, support, care, teach, learn and lead? How has this pandemic helped to ground us in what’s important?

We have invited Native American and Indigenous community leaders, knowledge keepers and scholars, students, educators, youth, administrators, helpers and staff of educational programs, organizations and institutions, from Chicago-land (Checagou) and beyond, to present at this year's 5th Annual Urban Native Education Conference.

To provide, advocate and support an inter-tribal urban system of education, through networks of Native American Programs and other providers to increase academic and career success for multi-generations, which recognizes formal education and tribal cultures/traditions.