Investigator: Jon Parmenter, History
Collaborators: Dusti Bridges, PhD candidate, Anthropology; Marina Zafiris, PhD candidate, Information Science
Collection Type: Grants Program for Digital Collections
Year: 2022
This project concerns Cornell University’s relationship to former Indigenous lands received under the Morrill Act of 1862 and the role that revenues from those lands played in Cornell’s institutional growth to the present day. A selection of material held by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will be digitized.