land grant universities

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• SOURCE: Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project
  8/11/2022
  

  Assessing Cornell's Response to Revelations it was Funded by Taking Indigenous Land

  by Jon Parmenter

  The university must account for its role in the historical connection between settler colonialism and the development of American higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  7/19/2022
  

  Robert Lee on "Land-Grab" Universities

  Robert Lee of Cambridge University discusses his work documenting the treaty-like arrangements by which universities appropriated indigenous lands to build their endowments, an understudied aspect of the land-grant university system. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/7/2020
  

  Ask Who Paid for America’s Universities

  by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee

  The Morrill Act created endowment funds from land that the U.S. Government took from Native Americans with little or no compensation. Addressing the problems of public universities must not exclude addressing the problems of Native communities.

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• SOURCE: Duluth News-Tribune
  4/12/2020
  

  3 North Dakota Colleges May Soon Acknowledge Campuses Are On Indigenous Land

  "That practice, even if it is only a ritual formality, it nevertheless, I believe, sets a tone that makes for a more civil society in a land where a settler society lives alongside Indigenous peoples," said Tom Isern, a history professor at North Dakota State University.