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At public forums this month, interim Chancellor David McMillan asked the three finalists to address some of the most pressing issues facing the Duluth campus.

The report shows that since its inception in 1851, the University of Minnesota acquired nearly 187,000 acres of land from the tribes.

University of Minnesota leaders made their most extensive comments so far on recommendations made in the TRUTH Report, which details the university’s expropriation of Native lands and mistreatment of Native people throughout the state and region.

RACHEL HOPPE: Hi, I’m Rachel Hoppe and you’re listening to In The Know, a podcast dedicated to the University of Minnesota. In this episode, I explored the university’s history as a land grant institution, as well as learned from other students about their own understanding of the concept. According to the Association of Public and...

Cornell University, a private Ivy League institution in upstate New York, is responsible for dispossessing 251 tribal nations from their homelands in its formation, the university said this week.

The TRUTH report enables the University to repair its relationship with tribal communities. So why is the Board of Regents dragging its feet?

The proposal to return land at the Cloquet Forestry Center and the findings of the TRUTH project could lead to stronger relations between the University and Minnesota and Minnesota’s Tribal Nations.

The proposal to return land at the Cloquet Forestry Center and the findings of the TRUTH project could lead to stronger relations between the University and Minnesota and Minnesota’s Tribal Nations.

Buffalo’s Fire Report: University ‘committed genocide’ of Native people

A new report concludes that the University of Minnesota should hire more Native American faculty, offer students more financial support and give back land to atone for its historic mistreatment of the state’s tribes. Totaling more than 500 pages, the report released Tuesday is the result of a collaborative effort between the council and the university called the TRUTH Project, which stands for Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing. The effort has received funding from the Mellon Fo...