Feb 19, 2026 5:30 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
- Sponsor
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Speaker
- Tristan Ahtone
- Contact
- Saywer Seminar Event Series
- saywerseminar@illinois.edu
- Views
- 1
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
This presentation examines the entangled histories of Indigenous land dispossession, the founding of the land-grant university system, and epistemicide in settler colonial institutions. Building on the Land-Grab Universities and Misplaced Trust investigations, this talk draws a direct line between the violent expropriation of Indigenous territories to the erasure of Indigenous peoples on campuses and in American institutions at large.