Cornell University & Indigenous Dispossession Project

Author: Eric Cheyfitz

  • Discussion of Cornell University as a Land-Grab University – Professor Eric Cheyfitz

    by Professor Eric Cheyfitz Lecture given during AIIS 1100 on September 14, 2020. My purpose in this lecture on the founding of Cornell University is to focus the historical reality of the university’s foundation in a national context. As Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee made widely known in their article “Land-grab universities” published in March 2020,…

  • Cornell University: The erasure of memory

    by Professor Eric Cheyfitz Originally published in LA Progressive on June 7, 2020. On May 7 of this year, the NY Times published an op-ed by By Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee titled “Ask Who Paid for America’s Universities.” The article concerned the Morrill Act of 1862, which was the basis for the founding of land-grant universities and colleges. The focus of…