How land-grant universities are profiting off Indigenous land
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Misplaced Trust, an 18-month long Grist investigation that reveals how stolen Indigenous land given to universities is often used for fossil fuel production or mining. Some universities are making billions off these practices.
In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, allowing the federal government to take land from Indigenous peoples and give it to states for the creation of public colleges known as land-grant universities.
Nearly a quarter of university trust lands are designated for either fossil fuel production or the mining of minerals, such as coal and iron-rich taconite.
