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Wide-scale U.S. higher education began in 1862 when the Morrill Act provided each state with “public” lands to sell for the establishment of university endowments. The public land-grant university movement is lauded as the first major federal funding for higher education and for making liberal and practical education accessible to Americans of average means. However hidden beneath the oft-told land-grant narrative is the land itself: the nearly 11 million acres of land sold through the Morrill Act was expropriated from tribal nations. This two-part forum examines the 150,000 acres of Indigenous land that funded the University of California is intricately tied to California’s unique history of Native dispossession and genocide, and how UC continues to benefit from this wealth accumulation today. We will then explore current university initiatives with tribes and engage in a community dialogue on actions the University of California can take to address their responsibility to California Indigenous communities.
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Co-sponsored by:
UC Berkeley: Native American Student Development; Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology; College of Natural Resources; Berkeley Food Institute; Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program; Native American Studies; American Indian Graduate Program; The Center for Race and Gender
UC Davis: Department of Native American Studies
UC Riverside: Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs; California Center for Native Nations; Native American Student Programs
Community Partners: Riverside-San Bernardino Native American Community Council
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Part 1: Unearthing Indigenous Land Dispossession in the Founding of the University of California
Friday, September 25, 9:00am – 12:00pm PT
Preliminary Schedule
Moderator: Phenocia Bauerle (Apsaálooke) Director, Native American Student Development, UC Berkeley
Land-Grab Universities and the Morrill Act
- Robert Lee, University Lecturer in American History, University of Cambridge
- Tristan Ahtone (Kiowa), Editor-in-Chief, Texas Observer
The University of California as a Land-Grab Institution
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Part 2: From Land-grab to Land Acknowledgement and Beyond
Friday, October 23, 9am–12:30pm
Preliminary Schedule
Moderator: Rosalie Z. Fanshel, PhD Student, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and Program Manager, Berkeley Food Institute, UC Berkeley
Current initiatives between UC system and California Indigenous communities
- Moderator: Clifford Trafzer (Wyandot/German), Distinguished Professor of History and Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs, UC Riverside
- Ron Goode (North Fork Mono), Chairman, North Fork Mono Tribe
- Valentin Lopez (Amah Mutsun), Chairman, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
- Jennifer Sowerwine, Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
- Bill Tripp, Director of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources
- Beth Rose Middleton, Professor and Chair of Native American Studies, UC Davis
Inspirations for accountability from land-grant university siblings
- Moderator: Christina Snider, Tribal Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom and Executive Secretary of the Native American Heritage Commission
- Christie M. Poitra, Interim Director, Native American Institute, Michigan State University
Breakout sessions: Calls to action
- Teaching/pedagogy
- Student experience/development
- Research
- Land acknowledgements
- Field stations/UC land
- Cooperative Extension
Closing remarks:
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For more information contact Rosalie Z. Fanshel at rzfanshel@berkeley.edu.
CART captioning will be provided. If you require any other accommodation for effective communication in order to fully participate in this virtual event, please contact Rosalie Z. Fanshel with as much advance notice as possible.
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