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THREAD: Last week I wrote and produced a story for @CPRNews based on @highcountrynews data that @Tahtone and @Bobby_L33 spent two years digging up: https://www.cpr.org/2020/07/23/csus-morrill-act-origin-is-a-generational-wealth-built-off-of-indigenous-lands/
Dr. Henrietta Mann’s two great grandmother’s survived the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado. “The soldiers paraded into Denver City,” Mann recalled. “They put those scalps of our people, the people to whom I belong, and paraded them into Denver City.”
Less than a year later, they were driven from Colorado after signing a treaty
The land the federal government sold as a result of that treaty was money used to establish CSU.
It has an innocuous name “Land Grant Universities” established under the Morrill Act passed in 1862.
According to @highcountrynews CSU received 89,001 acres under the Morrill Act. The United States paid $3,654 dollars for that land. The endowment principle that was raised: $411,670. As of 2018, the total University Endowment amounts to $355.9 million.
Despite the narrative of “free land” to establish institutions of higher learning, these were lands taken often by violence.
