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Land-grab Universities - Coggle Diagram
Land-grab Universities
1862
Lincoln signed Morrill Act
universities 'given free land'
11 million acres
24 western states
US paid <$ 400,000 total for the Indigenous land
sold in 'parcels'
land from 250 tribes through
treaties and cessions
cessions: "the formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state"
treaties made it possible to obtain land through dispossession by deceiving tribes
dispossession: "the action of depriving someone of land, property, or other possessions"
US paid very little for the land, while using it to profit billions from the land use
Citation
(Ahtone et al.)
Reasons
disposes land from tribes
citation
(Mitchell et al.)
for the US to put its claws in the west before westward expansion
disposession --> creation of property --> policing to protect land
making higher education more accessible in preparation for the end of slavery
agriculture: needed to make more white farmers when enslaved people weren't going to end the land anymore
industrial: engineering new technology to modernized the economy
citation
(Ahtone et al.)
Remove tribes from their land
1850 Act for the Government and Protection of Indians
citation
UC Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z0QbDz3KDE
citation
(Madley)
Uses of Land
churches, schools, bars, baseball diamonds, parking lots, hiking trails, billboards, restaurants, vineyards, cabarets, hayfields, gas stations, airports and residential neighborhoods
citation
(Ahtone et al.)
universities
Military and Police
Seizing the land
Dakota War of 1862
Dakota men fought back but Lincoln authorized the US Army to hang 38 Dakota men
citation
(Ahtone et al.)
Congress delayed payments, withheld rations, threatened violence, & destroyed agriculture
coercion tactics to obtain land
written into the Morrill Act
ROTC
police presence on campuses
