LIVING DEMOCRACY TALK: LAND GRAB U: LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021 - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - ONLINE

Presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

This presentation with Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee will both examine the land specifically used to found the University of California and also discuss the methods employed in this investigation of land expropriation, in order to reveal the links between violent colonialism and higher education.

Tristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is editor-in-chief at the Texas Observer. He has reported for multiple outlets including PBS NewsHour, National Native News, NPR, Al Jazeera America and High Country News, where he served as Indigenous Affairs editor. 

Robert Lee is a lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Indigenous dispossession and U.S. state formation in the nineteenth-century American West.

This event is free but registration is required.