The Morrill Land-Grant Acts and Tribal Lands: What Happened, What's Next. Editor’s note: While the Pulitzer Center is not directly supporting this event, we are excited to see grantees Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee’s project reach new audiences. Pulitzer Center grantees Tristan Ahtone and Robert “Bobby” Lee will join Twyla Baker, president of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, and Hillary Hoffman, co-director of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, for a symposium at the Vermont Law and Graduate School titled “The Morrill Land-Grant Acts and Tribal Lands: What Happened, What's Next.” This event will be open for in-person as well as virtual attendees. The Morrill Land-Grant Acts directed the construction of public universities across the country, but at great cost to Indigenous nations whose land was taken by treaties, cession, and seizure. Today, the funds created in 1862 remain on the books, land-grant colleges’ legacies live on, and Indigenous lands remain under
STRAFFORD This year, the Land-Grant College Act celebrates its 150th anniversary. Also known as the Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862 in honor of U.S. Sen. Justin Morrill, of Strafford, the legislation was lauded for expanding access to higher.