Land-grab universities - High Country News Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

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More Than Morrill: The Intertwined History of Indian Land Dispossession, Arizona Statehood, and University Enrichment <p>Through the federal government’s university land-grant programs, which began with the Morrill Act in 1862 and continue today, Congress has systematically all

New research builds on #MisplacedTrust and #LandGrabU by exploring & analyzing historical and ongoing land and resource theft from Indigenous peoples for the benefit of institutions of higher education: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

But the reason we're excited for this find is that #landgrabu has always been an open source investigation. Numerous scholars and reporters have utilized our data, and our hope has always been for other reporters to dig deeper into the buried stories. Here’s Bobby Benson on the matter:

Excited to announce that the #landgrabu investigation at @highcountrynews is posting a correction.
It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️