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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Native American Educational Services. Subject Files, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Established in Chicago in 1974, NAES College (Native American Educational Service) aimed to improve the leadership of Native communities and to ensure that tribal knowledge, traditions and values play a major role in the higher education of Native students. Before closing its doors in 2007, NAES College offered a single degree, a Bachelor's of Arts in General Studies with an emphasis in Public Policy, and tribal knowledge, community service, community development and leadership.
Boxes 1-12 contain newspaper articles pertaining to Native American issues. Boxes 13-28 contain a substantial collection of the publications of Native American tribes and organizations, some miscellaneous papers produced by the NAES, as well as papers and correspondence of the American Indian Press Association and the records of an NAES education study which ran from approximately 1986-1990.