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Stolen land, sacred site: How an Ivy League school blocks Ojibwe in northern Wisconsin

Both Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin are land-grant universities that profited from lands taken from Indigenous nations, as did at least 50 other universities throughout the U.S. Many are still profiting through their endowments.

The U.S. Morrill Act of 1862 gave states land taken from tribes by the federal government on the condition the land be sold or used for profit with the proceeds to help establish at least one agricultural college.