Press Coverage of CU&ID Project

Videos

• PBS News Hour – Investigation reveals how universities profit off land taken from Indigenous people – Aired June 18th 2024

Articles

• The Cornell Daily Sun – The Morrill Act, a Pipestone Quarry and the Fight for Repatriation: The Story of Cornell’s Ties to 155,340 Acres of Wisconsin Land – Author Skylar Kleinman – Published April 24 2024
• Red Lake Nation News – Cornell University Says it Will Work with Tribes to mend the History of its Massive Land Grab – Published October 13 2023
• Native News Online – Cornell University Should Work with Tribes to med the History of Its Massive Land Grab, Report Says – Author Jenna Kunze – Published October 11, 2023
• The Cornell Daily Sun – Over 150 Years After its Founding, Cornell Still Wrestles with Legacy of Indigenous Dispossession – Author Camden Wehrle – Published May 8, 2023
• HNN History News Network – Assessing Cornell’s Response to Revelations it was Funded by Taking Indigenous Land – Author Jon Parmenter – Published August 8 2022
• Cornell Review – Virtual Reunion Highlights Policy Questions on Indigenous Land Claims – Published June 18, 2021
• High Country News – Students and faculty urge deeper look at land-grant legacy – Author Jessica Douglas – Published December 22 2020
• High Country News – Cornell University addresses stolen Indigenous land in new project – Author Jessica Douglas – Published October 23, 2020
• Bunk History – Cornell: A “Land-Grab University”? – Author Kurt Jordan – Published July 29 2020
• University of Cambridge – The great university land grab – Author Tom Almeroth Williams – Published April 6 2020

Podcasts/Radio

• The Humanities Pod – Indigenous Dispossession and the Founding of Cornell: Part 2 with Michael Witgen – Published January 21 2021
• The Humanities Pod – Indigenous Dispossession and the Founding of Cornell: Part 1 with Jon Parmenter – Published December 10 2020

Associate Websites

• Land-Grab Universities – A High Country News Investigation – This project was created in partnership with the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

Academic Journals

• ACME An International Journal for Critical Geographies – Good Intentions are Not Good Relations – Grounding the Terms of Debt and Redress and Land Grab Universities – Author Meredith Alberta Palmer – Published June 22 2023 (Vol. 22 No4 (2023)
• Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAIS) – “We Grow the Ivy”: Cornell’s Claim to Indigenous Dispossession. – Author(s) Judy Kertesz and Angela A. Gonzalez – Published Spring 2021 (Vol. 8, Issue 1)