Speakers

Feb 19, 2026   5:30 pm  
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Sponsor
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Speaker
Tristan Ahtone
Contact
Saywer Seminar Event Series
E-Mail
saywerseminar@illinois.edu
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. 

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