Stolen Lands and State Universities

In this episode of the podcast we discuss the issue of the massive transfer of wealth from tribal nations who underwrote the founding of land-grant universities and how institutions are beginning to address and contend with difficult questions about their relationship to Indigenous communities. The issue is the topic of a recent article  in AAUP’s Academe magazine entitled  “Confronting the Wealth Transfer from Tribal Nations That Established Land-Grant Universities” written by today’s guests, Stephen M. Gavazzi, a professor of human development and family science in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University, and John N. Low, an enrolled citizen in the Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi Indians and the director of the Newark Earthworks Center. He is  associate professor of comparative studies at Ohio State, and the author of Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi and the City of Chicago.  Subscribe and listen to all episodes at: https://www.aaup.org/news/our-podcast-aaup-presents

Suggested reading:

• "Confronting the Wealth Transfer from Tribal Nations That Established Land-Grant Universities,"  Stephen M. Gavazzi & John Low, Academe, Spring 2022
• "Land-grab Universities," Robert Lee & Tristan Ahtone, High Country News, March 30, 2020