The report – a collaboration between the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the university – found that the school developed and taught revisionist narratives intended to conceal the systemic harm perpetuated against Indigenous people.
“The Founding Board of Regents committed genocide and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples for financial gain, using the institution as a shell corporation through which to launder lands and resources,” the report said.
The 500-page report was an outgrowth of the TRUTH Project, whose name is an acronym for “Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing.”
The project began in 2020 with the aim of revealing how universities across the United States were built on the proceeds of land taken away from tribes through the 1862 Morrill Act.
The University of Minnesota extracted vast amounts of wealth from tribes in the region, the project’s research team said on Tuesday. It said the founding members used their…
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