Morrill Act 
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SOURCE: Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project
8/11/2022
Assessing Cornell's Response to Revelations it was Funded by Taking Indigenous Land
by Jon Parmenter
The university must account for its role in the historical connection between settler colonialism and the development of American higher education.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/7/2020
Ask Who Paid for America’s Universities
by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee
The Morrill Act created endowment funds from land that the U.S. Government took from Native Americans with little or no compensation. Addressing the problems of public universities must not exclude addressing the problems of Native communities.
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SOURCE: High Country News
3/30/2020
Land-Grab Universities
by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
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