In 2020 a western U.S. environmental publication, High Country News, published an in-depth study by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone of how the Morrill Act of 1962, which established land-grant universities in the U.S., was funded by states selling land expropriated from tribal nations. The authors gathered extensive data on how these land-grant universities have benefitted, and many continue to benefit, from the sale and ownership of these lands.
Tristan Ahtone was interviewed yesterday on ”The 21st Show,” on NIU’s NPR station, WNIJ. A YouTube recording of the interview is at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGI0Rw9ae7U
He will be speaking at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana on Feb. 19.
https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events/event.php?ID=2683
The article is in the attached pdf of the January, 2020, issue of the publication. The link below is to an html version of that article.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities/
