The Lewis & Clark Native Alumni Association (LCNAA) is a community of Lewis & Clark alumni who self-identify as Native American and Indigenous. We also welcome alumni that are allies who seek to serve and support Indian Country. In order to cultivate a strong community, the LCNAA welcomes alumni from Lewis & Clark College, the Northwestern School of Law and the Graduate School of Education. The LCNAA seeks to create a supportive environment for current and former students and to serve as a resource to the Native Student Union (NSU), Native American Law Student Association (NALSA) and other Native students on campus. We aim to create a robust network of Native alumni and allies that embodies Lewis & Clark’s cornerstones of excellence, equity, community, and service. We aspire to:
Collaborate with the NSU to support the academic and life success of Native students at Lewis & Clark.
Support the success of Native alumni in their careers, community and global experiences.
Encourage the engagement of Native alumni in the Lewis & Clark community.
Support Lewis & Clark in honoring and uplifting Native voices and people.
Serve as a resource to the College to address issues that may impact the interests and concerns of Native students.
Serve as a resource to facilitate networking for current Native students and alumni.
Support NSU in the development of events.
We encourage and welcome all alumni and students of Lewis & Clark to join our community.
Objectives
Quarterly Zoom based Alumni meetings.
Support coordination of annual events:
New Student welcome to Native Students (September)
This year Lewis & Clark will present a series of Native scholars/artists whose work reflects on existing art and literature, as well as new art and scholarship, that is uniquely informed by their Native experiences and ancestral perspectives.
New research from Associate Professor of Law Lisa Benjamin explores the positive environmental justice impacts of electric vehicles while urging updates to land-use and mining regulations to protect Native communities.
Events
Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery, L&C Campus Broken Spectre is an immersive, 74-minute film documenting different fronts of destruction, degradation and environmental crimes in the Amazon Basin. Mosse shows both human sides of the tragedy: from the Yanomami and Munduruku Indigenous communities fighting for survival; to illegal gold miners poisoning and destroying entire river systems for tiny handfuls of gold. Showing from August 24 to December 15.
