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The term "land grant university" is quite common in the United States but few have interrogated what that term really means — from whom was this land "granted"?
"I was chagrined to have received three degrees from two land-grant universities, worked at a land-grant university for over 30 years, and yet had never thought to ask where the land came from," says Stephen Gavazzi, professor of Human Development and Family Science in the College of Education and Human Ecology. "As it turns out, there was an immense transfer of wealth from Tribal Nations to establish these institutions of higher learning."