Go ahead, give back the land

She somberly informed us that CSU is a land-grant college; the university, the research it facilitates, and the education acquired result, to a degree, from lands unjustly taken. She invited the audience to reflect on this historic injustice.

The vice president for inclusive excellence opined to the commencement audience that the worst incursion was the Europeans who displaced Native Americans. Lands were stolen, indigenous cultures marginalized. As documented by Ken Burns’s filmThe states should give their land-grant colleges to Native Americans. Land-grant colleges occupy land purchased by state governments with money earned from selling lands previously taken from Native Americans.

The Kickapoo tribe might administer the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Seneca Nation could administer Cornell University while the Massachusetts tribes manage the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Ohlone tribe could administer the University of California, Berkeley, and the Chumash could administer the University of California, Los Angeles — desperate for new management. My local Colorado State University could be entrusted to the Kiowa.

Of course, private colleges such as Columbia are exempt. A pity. Then again, the trustees of Columbia might recognize the justice of inviting the local tribes to become trustees of that Ivy League university. Let them deal with the pro-Palestinian protesters. Perhaps Native American trustees would end prohibitions against encampments. Regardless, return Columbia to Native Americans, and let’s see what happens.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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