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1/ One year ago, @highcountrynews published #LandGrabU - a two-year investigation that revealed how expropriated Indigenous land was turned into seed money for Land Grant Universities. hcne.ws/3bF1GZ9
2/ Here's how it worked: Passed in 1862, the #MorrillAct gave nearly 11 million acres of #publiclands to states to sell off to endow fledgling land-grant colleges. Those lands, of course, were not uninhabited.
3/ That land, acquired through broken treaties, illegal seizures and outright genocide, was transferred through the #MorrillAct from nearly 250 #Indigenous tribal nations to 52 institutions, including @UCLA, @Cornell and @MIT.
1/ On this day in 1862, President Lincoln signed into law the first #MorrillAct, establishing land-grant colleges & universities. Now thriving, the institutions seldom ask who paid for their good fortune. Here's why they should: 
2/ The #MorrillAct worked by turning land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. In all, the act redistributed nearly 11 million acres taken from nearly 250 tribes, bands and communities through over 160 violence-backed land cessions.
3/ Our @highcountrynews investigation, "Land-Grab Universities," reveals how Indigenous land was turned into seed money for colleges. We located 99% of all Morrill acres, identified their original caretakers & researched the money raised from their sale. hcn.org/issues/52.4/in…
