# TRUTH Report *A 2023 report on the University of Minnesota's history with Native Americans, published by the TRUTH Project and hosted by the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.* The **TRUTH Report** is the final report of the [[TRUTH Project]]. It is dated April 11, 2023, examines the [[University of Minnesota]]'s historical treatment of Native Americans, and is published on the website of the [[Minnesota Indian Affairs Council]], the report's institutional home.[^1][^2][^3] The University's own news release describes the project's presentation to the University's [[Board of Regents]].[^4] In the report's words, the University's founding Board of Regents "committed genocide and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples for financial gain." The report also calls the institution of the founding era a "shell corporation through which to launder lands and resources."[^1] This record pairs the report's date with a later federal filing against the State. On January 14, 2026, thirty-three months after the report's date, the [[United States Department of Justice]] announced a lawsuit against Minnesota in a release titled *United States Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Against Minnesota's 'Affirmative Action' Regime*.[^5] ## What The project's chronology describes the report as documenting the University's historical mistreatment of Native Americans, including land dispossession, forced assimilation and institutional erasure.[^1] The project's merged master calls the report the University's "commissioned language" for its founding transactions, verified verbatim on the state agency's site.[^1] The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council maintains a TRUTH Project page and hosts both the full report and an accompanying press release.[^2][^6] ## When The report is dated April 11, 2023.[^1] The project's chronology places its release in April 2023, which agrees with that date.[^1] The University's news release reports the project's presentation to the Board of Regents.[^4] ## In the at-issue record The project's at-issue pair AI-Anoka-050 places the April 11, 2023 report beside the United States' January 14, 2026 filing against the State.[^1][^5] The pair's anchor document is the January 2025 presidential action on ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity.[^7] The Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs issued its announcement of the filing as release No. 26-21. The release title calls the State's apparatus Minnesota's "'Affirmative Action' Regime". According to the release, Attorney General Pamela Bondi certified the case as a matter of general public importance.[^5] The project's catalogue of U.S.-government "regime" usages finds no other U.S. state so described.[^5] This record does not carry the complaint's docket number, its status, or the text of its allegations, and this article does not state them. The record does not establish that the filing names the University or the report.[^5] ## In the Minnesota record ### What - The full text of the *TRUTH Project Final Report* is hosted by the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.[^1] - A press release accompanying the report is hosted on the same site.[^6] - The University of Minnesota published a news release on the TRUTH Project's presentation to the Board of Regents.[^4] ### When - April 11, 2023: date of the *TRUTH Project Final Report*.[^1] - January 14, 2026: the Department of Justice announced its lawsuit against Minnesota in release No. 26-21.[^5] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (host), *TRUTH Project Final Report* (April 11, 2023). Establishes the report's date and content, its statement on the founding Board of Regents, and its "shell corporation" language. https://mn.gov/indian-affairs/assets/full-report_tcm1193-572488.pdf [^2]: Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, *TRUTH Project* (n.d.). Establishes the project's page on the Council's site. https://mn.gov/indian-affairs/truth-project/ [^3]: Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, *Minnesota Indian Affairs Council* (n.d.). Establishes the Council as the institutional home of the TRUTH Report. https://mn.gov/indian-affairs/ [^4]: University of Minnesota, *University of Minnesota and MIAC's TRUTH Project presented to Board of Regents* (n.d.). Establishes the University's news release on the project's presentation to the Regents. https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/university-minnesota-and-mias-truth-project-presented-board-regents [^5]: United States Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, *United States Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Against Minnesota's 'Affirmative Action' Regime*, release No. 26-21 (Jan. 14, 2026). Establishes the filing date, the release title, and the Attorney General's certification of general public importance. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-department-justice-files-lawsuit-against-minnesotas-affirmative-action-regime [^6]: Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, *TRUTH Report press release* (n.d.). Establishes the press release hosted with the report. https://mn.gov/indian-affairs/assets/press-release_tcm1193-572351.pdf [^7]: The White House, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (January 2025). Establishes the presidential action anchoring at-issue pair AI-Anoka-050. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/