Department of Social Work

Dr. John Red Horse
Email: jredhors@d.umn.edu

John Red Horse is the Co-Principal investigator of an Indian Child Welfare Certificate Program to design graduate and undergraduate-level credit-bearing training curricula, which is funded by the Bush Foundation. His research has focused on many aspects of Indian life, including social and legal perspectives on Indian child welfare, American Indian family development, bilingualism, and Indian children’s health and mental health, and family preservation. John’s tribal affiliation is Cherokee. John holds an A.B. from the University of Pacific, an M.S.W. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota.