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Native America Calling: How land grant universities cash in on broken promises
Thursday, February 22, 2024
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How Land Grant universities cash in on broken promises
The University of Wisconsin system takes in more than $1 million a year from lands given them by the federal government a century and a half ago.

They are among the institutions that reap what a new investigation by the online publication Grist says is more than $2.2 billion dollars in 2022. The ongoing source of money comes from mining, drilling, farming, and other uses on lands granted by the U.S. government to promote both continuing education and a policy of removing Native American possession and use of that land.

Any past promised benefits to tribes and their citizens are falling short.

Guests on Native America Calling
Tristan Ahtone (Kiowa), editor-at-large for Grist

Rick Williams (Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne), executive director of People of the Sacred Land

Maria Parazo Rose, spatial data analyst at Grist

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