Tadd Johnson

For white Americans, the discovery of children's bodies in unmarked graves near Indian residential schools is awful - but not a surprise.But again, for…

What is democracy? Are its underpinnings being eroded? Is it being threatened? What, if anything can we do about it?The Minnesota Humanities Council is…

The Osage shield on the Oklahoma state flag shows a Plains-style ceremonial pipe representing Native Americans, and an olive branch representing European…

On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise. Forced to leave their ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama, the Creek Nation received assurances…

At 4pm on Friday, March 27th, just at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and national shut-downs, the chairman of the of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe…

Tadd Johnson laughs and says he's at an age where he doesn't mind speaking truth to power.So when he talked to University of Minnesota president Joan…

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the…

It took more than two years of conversations with Minnesota's eleven tribes and five University of Minnesota campuses to produce a draft update of the…

In 2013, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton mandated that employees of state agencies consult with the 11 sovereign tribal nations on matters of mutual…

It took three years, eleven tribes, a statewide council and UMD's American Indian Studies department, but the Tribal Sovereignty Institute is on its way…