Taking a Hard Look: Is Cornell a Land-Grab University?
Uploader: Cynthia Robinson
Original upload date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:20:35 GMT
All of the U.S. states have Land-Grant Colleges or Universities, many subsidized by generous real property transfers under the Morrill Act of 1862. Insofar as these lands were previously homelands to
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Native Americans and were often taken though violence and fraud, do these ‘grants’ constitute ‘grabs’? Cornell’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) recently formed the Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project to examine the University’s entanglement with Indigenous lands in New York State and elsewhere across the continent due to federal awards and policies. This joint lecture reviews major research findings on this controversy to date, points to new research interests surfacing in AIISP, and shares several of the early responses by the Cornell administration in a time of heightened sensitivity to racial justice and indigenous peoples’ rights.
-Charles Geisler, Emeritus, Development Sociology
-Professor Kurt Jordan, AIISP Director, Department of Anthropology
-Professor Jon Parmenter, Department of History & AIISP
