Grappling with the Land Grant Truth | Inspire Podcast

 

August 18, 2021

Inspire Podcast | The College of Education & Human Ecology

The motivation for change comes in strange and unsettling ways. In this podcast series, faculty and alumni at Ohio State’s College of Education and Human Ecology tell how they discovered their calling, sometimes against incredible odds.

'Ohio State Professor Stephen Gavazzi learned a painful truth about Land Grant Universities-just after his book on the subject went to press. Now he's working with a team of Ohio State faculty to find a path to healing harm done to indigenous nations when they lost lands to fund the university through the Morrill Act of 1862.' 

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-Transcript

Featuring interviews with Tristan Ahtone, John Low, Jacquelyn Meshelemiah, and Steve Gavazzi. Name drops included our work with First Nations Development Institute and the scholarship of Robert Lee.

For more information, 

Visit:

• The Ohio State University
• Stepping Out & Stepping Up Racial Justice Project Blog
• "Stepping Out & Stepping Up: Towards Truth & Reconcilliation with Dispossessed Native American Tribes" -Stephen M. Gavazzi and Brian Snyder. December 17, 2020.
• Humanities Collaboratory
• Upcoming webinar: Land-Grab Universities: Owning the Truth and Sharing the Path to Making Amends 
• October 6, 2021 12-2PM EST. 
• The two lead authors of High Country News’ Land-Grab Universities Report: Tristan Ahtone and Bobby Lee will discuss their ground-breaking account of how the Morrill Act was funded through the seizure and sale of Native lands, with ongoing legacies in endowment funds and Indigenous dispossession.
  Co-sponsors include the First Nations Development Institute, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, as well as the editors of the Native American and Indigenous Studies journal."
• ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS: Tsianina Lomawaima (Arizona State U) & Kelly McDonough (U of Texas): Co-Editors of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Special Issue on Land-Grab Universities; Theresa Ambo (UC San Diego): The Complicity and Complacency of Land-Grant Universities; and Michael Roberts (First Nations Development Institute): Connecting Universities with Leaders of Tribes Whose Land was Taken and Sold to Fund Land-Grant Institutions
• Zoom Registration Link.
• If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, or other accommodations, please contact the Humanities Institute.
• Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (InFACT)
• "InFACT and Partners to Pursue Racial Justice with First Nations Tribes." December 2020.
• Newark Earthworks Center
• Research
• Senator Morrill Act of 1862
• First Nations Development Institute
• High Country News | Land-Grab Universities
• Land-Grab Universities Report
• GitHub Repository for the HCN investigation, "Land-Grab Universities" including the "Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database."
• Note: Control+F or Command+F on a Mac will bring up a search box which you can use to search for specific text within the data.
• "Stepping Out & Stepping Up: Towards Truth & Reconciliation with Dispossessed Native American Tribes" Stephen M. Gavazzi and Brian Snyder. December 17, 2020.
• "Intervention: Indigenous Studies Reflections on The Land-Grab Universities Project"Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal. Vol 8, No 1, Spring 2021. | JSTOR [OSU login required; also available with OSU login on Gale Academic OneFile: 2014 to present]
• "Editors' Introduction: Reflections on the Land-Grab Universities Project." (pg. 89-91) K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Kelly Mcdonough, Jean M. O'Brien and Robert Warrior.
• "Morrill Issues and Academic Liberalism" (pg. 92-96) David R. Roediger.
• "The Wealth of Knowledge: Land-Grab Universities in a British Imperial and Global Context." (pg. 97-105) Caitlin P.A. Harvey.
• " "Drawing a Line from their Institution": One Origin Story of Indigenous GIS Design." (pg 106-111) Mark Palmer.
• " "Unrefutable Responsibility": Mapping the Seeds of Settler Futurity and Seeding the Maps of Indigenous Futurity." (pg. 112-122) Marcel Brousseau.
• "Stolen Lands and Stolen Opportunities." (pg. 123-128) Randall Akee.
• "Repaying a Debt? The Performance of Morrill Act University Beneficiaries as Measured by Native Enrollment and Graduation Rates." (pg. 129-138) Donna Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones.
• "Myths, Erasure, and Violence: The Immoral Triad of the Morrill Act." (pg. 139-144) Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Amanda R. Tachine.
• " "We Grow the Ivy": Cornell's Claim to Indigenous Dispossession." (pg. 145-150) Judy Kertész and Angela A. Gonzales.
• "Campuses, Colonialism, and Land Grabs before Morrill" (pg. 151-156) Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and Stephen Kantrowitz.
• "Reckoning with the Original Sin of Land-Grant Universities: Remaining Land-Grant Fierce While Insisting on Contrition and Repentance." (pg. 157-161) Stephen M. Gavazzi.
• "The Future Is in the Past: How Land-Grab Universities Can Shape the Future of Higher Education." (pg. 162-168) Theresa Stewart-Ambo.
• "The Future of Land-Grab Universities." (pg. 169-175) Meredith McCoy, Roopika Risam and Jennifer Guiliano.
• "Looking Forward from Land-Grab Universities." (pg. 176-182) Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee.
• Tribal Connections Map | U.S. Forest Service
• "designed to illustrate the relationship between lands administered by the Forest Service, Indian lands, and lands ceded to the United States as documented in the 67 maps from "Indian Land Cessions in the United States", compiled by Charles C. Royce and published as the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897."
• Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good [OSU Login required, Project Muse]
• Stephen M. Gavazzi, E. Gordon Gee, C. Peter Magrath. John Hopkins Press. 2018.