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Indigenous Scholar Michelle Schenandoah ’99 Challenges Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ’54 Feminist Legacy
With its looming and unaddressed land-grab histories, Cornell cannot cherry-pick its “good” legacies without acknowledging its wrongs. Former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended Cornell University as an undergraduate. To this day, Cornell commemorates Ginsburg as one of the university’s most famous alumni- recently naming a residence hall in her honor. Ginsburg is often remembered for her passion…
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Proposal for Gayogohó:nǫˀ-controlled land base
Beyond Land Acknowledgement: Toward a Gayogohó:nǫˀ-controlled land base at Cornell’s Arnot Teaching and Research Forest By Audrey Baker Full paper download at bottom of page This white paper was developed through a Cornell Society for the Humanities seminar called Disturbing Settlement, taught by Amiel Bize, in Fall 2023. The ideas presented came from conversations with Christa Nunez, Michelle Seneca, and Jay…
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Cornell and the Morrill Act: 120 Years of Land Acquisition
Published on the Any Person, Many Stories: History of Exclusion and Inclusion at Cornell blog. by Jacobi Kandel, Maggie Lam, and Zelazzie Zepeda October 2023 After learning about the dispossession of Native Land during the founding of their institution, students in Professor Kurt Jordan’s AIIS 1100 Indigenous North America class felt it was imperative to discuss…
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The 2022 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture
Land-Grab Universities: Recent Past, Present and Future of Indigenous Dispossession
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Cornell’s Relationship to Indigenous Dispossession: Geneva and Beyond
On March 10, 2021, Cornell University Associate Professor Kurt A. Jordan, who also directs the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) and chairs AIISP’s Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Committee, spoke to faculty, staff, and students at Cornell AgriTech (in Geneva, New York) and Cornell’s School of Integrated Plant Science (SIPS). His presentation focused…
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Indigenous Dispossession and the Founding of Cornell: Part 2 with Michael Witgen
The following is taken from The Humanities Pod, funded by The Society for the Humanities at Cornell originally posted to their website on January 21, 2021. Informal conversations with Society Fellows, Cornell Faculty, community collaborators, and special guests shine a light on some of the new work, the current conversations, and the latest ideas of humanists at…
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Indigenous Dispossession and the Founding of Cornell: Part 1 with Jon Parmenter
The following is taken from The Humanities Pod, funded by The Society for the Humanities at Cornell originally posted to their website on December 14, 2020. Informal conversations with Society Fellows, Cornell Faculty, community collaborators, and special guests shine a light on some of the new work, the current conversations, and the latest ideas of humanists at…
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Cornell Administration revises text on webpage for Cornell’s Land Grant Mission
Cornell University’s administration revised its statement about the University’s land-grant mission by adding a new paragraph that acknowledges Cornell’s relationship to Indigenous dispossession both locally and continentally. This revision was based on the March 2020 High Country News article and the work of AIISP’s Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project. The new paragraph was written in conjunction with AIISP…
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day Panel on Indigenous Dispossession Project
Panel given during The American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration by Cornell University’s Professor Jon Parmenter with introduction by Professor Kurt Jordan and response by Dr. Shaawano Chan Uran. Given via Zoom on October 12, 2020.
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Petition to Support NAISAC Demands
by Native American and Indigenous Students at Cornell (NAISAC) Cornell University was founded on Indigenous dispossession and genocide. To this day, the University upholds a tradition of profiting from acts of colonial violence and Indigenous erasure. In order to begin to rectify these crimes, the members of Native American and Indigenous Students At Cornell put…