Exhibit (a)(11)

                                AMENDMENT NO. 10
                         TO THE DECLARATION OF TRUST OF
                                 NORTHERN FUNDS
                          (A DELAWARE STATUTORY TRUST)

     The undersigned hereby certifies that the following resolutions were duly
adopted by the Board of Trustees of Northern Funds on February 16, 2006.

     RESOLVED, that pursuant to Article V of the Agreement and Declaration of
Trust of Northern Funds (the "Trust"), an unlimited number of authorized,
unissued and unclassified shares of beneficial interest of the Trust be, and
hereby are, classified into an initial class of shares in the following series
of shares: Emerging Markets Equity Fund (the "New Fund");

     FURTHER RESOLVED, that each share of the New Fund shall have all of the
preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions,
limitations, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption that are set
forth in the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the Trust with respect to its
shares of beneficial interest; and

     FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers of the Trust be, and each hereby is,
authorized and empowered to execute and deliver any and all documents,
instruments, papers and writings, including, but not limited to, any instrument
to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, and to do any
and all other acts, in the name of the Trust and on its behalf, as he, she or
they may deem necessary or desirable in connection with or in furtherance of the
foregoing resolutions.


Date: February 16, 2006                 /s/ Jeffrey A. Dalke
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                                        Jeffrey A. Dalke
                                        Secretary