Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing

The Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing—TRUTH—project is a Native-organized, Native-led, community-driven research movement that offers multiple recommendations on how the University of Minnesota community can be in better relation with Indigenous peoples. The first of its kind, TRUTH Report is an exploratory study to assess what has been erased and effaced in order to reclaim what was grabbed by the University of Minnesota. TRUTH uses place-based, Tribally-led research designed to, for the first time, tell the story of Tribal-University relations from an Indigenous perspective. This is done through the centering of land, practicing relationality and amplifying Tribal voices. 

The TRUTH Project's mission is to center relationality and Indigeneity in research and to meet the calls of Indigenous Nations for self-determination and healing. Support comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through a grant to Minnesota Transform and the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.