New regent Tadd Johnson makes Minnesota, university history
August 5, 2022
A university that was founded on tribal land and has a history of injustices against Native Americans is now finding ways to reckon with that past.
Tadd Johnson has been the face of that work. A member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Johnson was the University of Minnesota’s first senior director of tribal relations and this year became the first Native member of the Board or Regents.