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Department of American Indian Studies

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Through the exploration of indigenous narratives, heritage, and history, we strive to restore and promote the importance of American Indians in everyday life.

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Leonard Peltier's Story Isn't Over Yet

Nick Estes, assistant professor of American Indian Studies, writes about a Native activist who was imprisoned for nearly fifty years and whose sentence was commuted by Biden.

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Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet

Dr. Nick Estes (UMN American Indian Studies) interviewed Leonard Peltier in the New Yorker following Peltier's commuted sentence in January.

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‘A big Minnesota moment in New York’: The Met announces exhibition of late artist George Morrison

MPR News interviews Professor Brenda J. Child about the impact of Professor Emeritus Morrison on art history locally and nationally.