Jayne Kinney is a fifth-year PhD candidate in history with an American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS) minor. She holds the Sara Evans Fellowship in Women’s History.
Regents Professor Jean O’Brien is a citizen of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation, and has supported many scholars engaged in Indigenous history and studies.
A recipient of the Emerging Alumni award, Vanessa Goodthunder teaches the next generation of Dakota language speakers as a Director of The Lower Sioux Children are Sacred…
Morrison’s friends and family share memories of the painter and arts professor as the center created by the Department of American Indian Studies and Department of Art opens.
A new PhD program in American Indian Studies and a new home for the department are two of the University's recent efforts in response to the TRUTH Report.
The Department of American Indian Studies and Department of Art are pleased to share the creation of this study center, which will support Indigenous art in all its forms.
The Katherine E. Nash Gallery hosts a group exhibition of 29 Indigenous painters, the inaugural program of the George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts.
Like many loon-loving Minnesotans, I’m excited for the big reveal of the new state seal. I am also excited to see the Dakota phrase Mni Sóta Makoce incorporated into the…
Dr. Jean O'Brien has been named a Regents Professor. O’Brien is an award-winning historian and scholar, an intellectual leader who has helped to transform the field of…
Associate Professor Christine DeLisle received the 2023 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize for her book Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and…
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day, TIME asks Professor Brenda Child and 10 fellow Indigenous history experts to share one Native American historymaker who readers…