Gladwyn d’Souza<p>The amount of acreage under management for land-grant universities varies widely, from as little as 15,000 acres aboveground in North Dakota to more than 2.1 million belowground in Texas. Combined, Indigenous nations were paid approximately $4.3 million in today’s dollars for these lands, but in many cases, nothing was paid at all. In 2022 alone, these trust lands generated more than $2.2 billion for their schools. Between 2018 and 2022, the lands produced almost $6.7 billion... The new data reveals how state trust lands continue to transfer wealth from Indigenous nations to land-grant universities more than a century after the original Morrill Act.<br />It also provides insight into the relationship between colonialism, higher education, and climate change in the Western United States. </p><p><a href="https://grist.org/project/equity/land-grant-universities-indigenous-lands-fossil-fuels/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grist.org/project/equity/land-</span><span class="invisible">grant-universities-indigenous-lands-fossil-fuels/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopIntrusionIntoTheWUIAndRematriateLandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopIntrusionIntoTheWUIAndRematriateLandBack</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UniversitiesAreBastionsOfSettlerColonialBrainwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UniversitiesAreBastionsOfSettlerColonialBrainwashing</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USSettlerColonialGenrontocracyFundsGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USSettlerColonialGenrontocracyFundsGenocide</span></a></p>