Category: Lecture
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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 University’s Charles Research Group aims to quantitatively contribute to the story of Indigenous displacement and Land Grant Institutions through a lens on Indigenous food systems. The team has developed a tool that enables users to explore and map out the…
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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 (G22, Goldwin Smith Hall) + Livestreamed (lecture video & slides available below) Cornell University owns a severed fifty-percent mineral interest on 155,340 acres of land in twelve northern Wisconsin counties – a legacy of the public lands allocated by the…
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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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The 2022 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture
Land-Grab Universities: Recent Past, Present and Future of Indigenous Dispossession
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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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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 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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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,…