Cornell University & Indigenous Dispossession Project

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Explore the CU&ID Project’s collection of papers, articles, lectures, letters and podcasts regarding Cornell and other institution’s land-grab entanglement. Special thanks to all the contributors who have made this collection of research possible. If you would like to contribute to the CU&ID Project Blog, please email us!

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Cornell University’s Mineral Rights in Wisconsin: A Legacy of the 1862 Morrill Act The following research is apart of a broader CU&ID project, “Visualizing the Land Grab,” conducted … 2024/08/29 Article 2024-08-29 08:00:00
Dr. Michael Charles presents webinar on ‘Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Land Grant Institutions: A Forgotten Debt’ with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center WEBINAR ABSTRACT: Utilizing national datasets on food security, temperature, precipitation, and food productivity indices, Cornell … 2024/08/28 Article, CU&ID Committee, Lecture, Video 2024-08-28 21:01:31
Cornell University & the Blue Hills (WI) Pipestone Quarry: A Perspective from Anishinaabewaki Lecture by Dr. Rick St. Germaine. Monday March 25th, 2024 at 5:00 pm EST. In-Person … 2024/03/26 Lecture 2024-03-26 18:19:19
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 … 2024/03/11 Lecture 2024-03-11 18:46:28
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 … 2024/03/02 Article 2024-03-02 18:48:39
Reading Grist’s ‘Misplaced Trust’: The Vantage from Cornell  by Professor Jon Parmenter Cover Photo from “Misplaced Trust: Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation … 2024/02/22 Article 2024-02-22 19:34:23
Confronting Cornell University’s Origins in Indigenous Dispossession by Professor Jon Parmenter In this contribution to a forum on “The End of Early … 2024/01/31 Article, Publication 2024-01-31 17:39:00
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 … 2023/10/27 Article, Video 2023-10-27 09:43:29
Our Goals and Methods Our Goals and Methods: How the Cornell University & Indigenous Dispossession Committee Determined which Present-Day … 2023/10/17 Article, CU&ID Committee 2023-10-17 09:44:36
Press Release: Cornell University’s Land Grab Impacts 251 Tribes Originally released October 7, 2023. For IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Prof. Kurt Jordan, Cornell University … 2023/10/07 CU&ID Committee, Press Release 2023-10-07 09:45:25
Good Intentions are Not Good Relations Grounding the Terms of Debt and Redress at Land Grab Universities by Meredith Alberta Palmer (Ska:rù:rę’/Tuscarora) Published … 2023/06/21 Article, Publication 2023-06-21 01:38:40
The 2022 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture Land-Grab Universities: Recent Past, Present and Future of Indigenous Dispossession Watch the 2022 Kops Freedom … 2022/09/13 Lecture 2022-09-13 03:25:55
Land-Grant Beneficiaries Need to Finally Right Wrongs Originally published in the Letter to the Editor section of The Chronicle of Higher Education on August … 2022/08/30 Letter 2022-08-30 04:42:24
Assessing Cornell University’s Response to Recent Revelations Concerning the Origins of Revenues Obtained from the Morrill Act of 1862 by Professor Jon Parmenter Cornell University, chartered in 1865 as New York State’s designated recipient … 2022/08/17 Article 2022-08-17 04:47:08
My Back Yard, Equity Concerns, and Land Grant Truth-Telling This article has been republished with permission by TheNaturalFarmer.org.  This article was published as a part … 2022/07/27 Article, Publication 2022-07-27 04:48:10
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 … 2021/09/10 Lecture, Video 2021-09-10 04:50:11
Letter to Dr. Pollack on Cornell’s Morrill Act Lands: One Year Anniversary In September, 2020, Profs. Geisler and Wien prepared a letter addressed to the Cornell President … 2021/09/08 Letter 2021-09-08 04:51:53
Migrations: A World on the Move Podcast – Dispossession On this episode of the Migrations: A World on the Move podcast, we learn from Professor Kurt … 2021/06/17 Podcast 2021-06-17 04:53:27
Cornell’s Relationship to Indigenous Dispossession: Geneva and Beyond On March 10, 2021, Cornell University Associate Professor Kurt A. Jordan, who also directs the … 2021/03/10 Lecture, Video 2021-03-10 04:55:21
A Land Grant University: Cornell’s Legacy The following is taken from the Present Value podcast, founded in fall 2017 by two Cornell MBA … 2021/02/22 Podcast 2021-02-22 04:56:56
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 … 2021/01/21 Podcast 2021-01-21 09:54:00
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, … 2021/01/04 Article 2021-01-04 10:01:00
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 … 2020/12/14 Podcast 2020-12-14 10:03:00
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 … 2020/12/10 Article 2020-12-10 10:04:00
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 … 2020/12/02 Lecture 2020-12-02 10:05:00
From Bad to Worse: Ithaca Common Council Rewrites History to the Detriment of Us All by Professor Jon Parmenter “First white settlers” monument in Dewitt Park (photo by The Ithaca Voice) … 2020/10/20 Article 2020-10-20 10:07:00
Petition to Support NAISAC Demands Hiawatha Belt; picture credit Onondaga Nation (https://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/). by Native American and Indigenous Students at Cornell … 2020/10/14 Letter 2020-10-14 10:08:00
Flipped Scrip, Flipping the Script: The Morrill Act of 1862, Cornell University, and the Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Indigenous Dispossession by Professor Jon Parmenter Abstract New York State received nearly one-tenth of the “public land” … 2020/10/01 Article 2020-10-01 10:09:00
Breaking the Silence on Cornell’s Morrill Act Lands What follows is an August 19th letter written to Cornell President Martha Pollack and copied to … 2020/09/29 Letter 2020-09-29 10:10:00
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 … 2020/09/28 Lecture 2020-09-28 10:11:00
Cornell University: The erasure of memory by Professor Eric Cheyfitz Originally published in LA Progressive on June 7, 2020. On May 7 of … 2020/08/26 Article 2020-08-26 10:12:00
Cornell: A “Land-Grab University”? Whose endowment raised the most from Indigenous land? Top ten beneficiaries by principal and value … 2020/07/29 Article 2020-07-29 10:13:00