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Robert Lee

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Public Universities Are Profiting In Billions From Industries On Stolen Indigenous Land

Extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land. Here's how 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.

by Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone, Amanda Tachine, An Garagiola, Audrianna Goodwin, Maria Parazo Rose, Clayton Aldern via Grist on February 7, 2024
Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee via High Country News on March 30, 2020
The True Story of the Louisiana Purchase Is One of Plunder of Native American Lands

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.

by Robert Lee via Slate on March 1, 2017

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Map of the United States marking where land was granted to Cornell - concentrations in Wisconsin and California.

Cornell: A “Land-Grab University”?

Cornell University's past and current wealth is tied to the dispossession of Indigenous groups from their land.

by Kurt Jordan via American Indian And Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) on July 29, 2020

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