October 6, 2021
12 - 2 PM Eastern Time.
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.
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
- Michael Roberts (First Nations Development Institute): Connecting Universities with Leaders of Tribes Whose Land was Taken and Sold to Fund Land-Grant Institutions
FREE, 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.
In partnership with The Ohio State University’s Humanities Institute and funded through generous support from The Ohio State University’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Grants Program. 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.
For more information,
Visit:
- Stepping Out & Stepping Up Racial Justice Project Blog
- Research
- Senator Morrill Act of 1862 Resources
- 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.
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