The Media Narrative

The Media Narrative


Land Grab Universities

July 17, 2020

These are challenging times for American universities and colleges. But dozens of them would not exist without the financial benefit of land "seized or stolen or otherwise leveraged from indigenous tribes into US hands through violence-backed treaties," says historian Bobby Lee.


Earlier this year, Lee and Tristan Ahtone, an investigative journalist, published a High Country News article resulting from two years of deep research, analysis, and reportage.


In this episode they talk about how some schools have responded—or not and provide advice for how journalists and everyone else can use the research for further study.



Land Grab U website


High Country News article