Author: Meredith Palmer
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Good Intentions are Not Good Relations
Grounding the Terms of Debt and Redress at Land Grab Universities
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Debts, ethics, and redress: Moving Land Grab University work forward
Dr. Meredith Alberta Palmer (Six Nations Tuscarora), Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow In early 2020, an investigative report on “Land Grab Universities” was released by High Country News, detailing how the dispossession of hundreds of Indigenous Peoples of their lands provided the seed money for the founding of the United States land grant university system, instated…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s notoriety in Indian country and Cornell’s campus landscape
by Dr. Meredith Alberta Palmer After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on September 18th, 2020, Cornell University committed to naming one of five new dorm buildings located in the North Campus Residential Expansion (NCRE) currently under construction, after her. Naming a building after Justice Ginsburg is an unsettling choice for anyone familiar with her…