Over 160 years ago, the federal government granted Penn State land that was expropriated from 114 tribal nations. Now, a group of faculty say it's time Penn State steps up to reconcile the land grab.
In fact, the government paid only $38,089 for the land it gave Penn State, even though the university was able to raise $439,171 through its sale for what would become the university’s original endowment, now valued at $4.5 billion, faculty members say.Advertisement
Of faculty, only about one-third of 1% are American Indian or Alaska Native. Representation among staff is even smaller, and there are no administrators and executives that identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, even though more than 2% of the U.S. population is American Indian or Alaska Native, the faculty report said.
“Why doesn’t Penn State invest in a place, a space that is a nexus of peace,” Bird said, noting that Haudenosaunee members have suggested it during meetings on campus last year. “It would be a place where Penn State can acknowledge the traumatic history.”Temple kept its commitment to open a center on antiracism. Penn State didn’t. What does that mean?
She hopes ultimately that Penn State will start a school for peace, “open to students from all over the world to come to learn about Indigenous philosophy … and how to be peace ambassadors.Other universities around the country have begun to take steps to address the issue. Cornell, in June 2020, launched the Indigenous Dispossession Project, which led to the publication of a website,
The $439,000 that Penn State got from the original land would be equivalent to about $7.8 million when adjusted for inflation, the magazine said.
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