Old Debts, New Research: University Land Grabs and Indigenous Nations
Old Debts, New Research: University Land Grabs and Indigenous Nations. Image by Ethan Widlansky/Pulitzer Center. United States, 2023.Monday, March 27: 'Investigating Land Grants to Universities' Join grantee Tristan Ahtone to learn how land grant universities built upon expropriated Indigenous Nations with the Morrill Act. The Morrill Act bestowed 11 million acres of public land for states to sell to land grant schools. While made legally "public" by force and deceit, these lands were not uninhabited. Indeed, the Morrill Act constitutes the "largest wealth trans...
Source: pulitzercenter.org