[CED/CD/EAT] High Country News REQUEST FOR COMMENT

Wed Mar 4 08:17:59 MST 2020

That is great. Thank you.

Jeff

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From: Teegerstrom, Trent - (tteegers) <tteegers at ag.arizona.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 7:45:22 AM
To: Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) <Silver at ag.arizona.edu>; EAT <eat at cals.arizona.edu>; 'ced at list.cals.arizona.edu' <ced at list.cals.arizona.edu>
Subject: RE: High Country News REQUEST FOR COMMENT

Below  is what I have been using in my email:

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Trent Teegerstrom

Associate Director for Tribal Extension Programs and Ag Economics Extension Specialist The University of Arizona

1140 E. South Campus Dr.

Tucson, AZ 85721-0036

Phone: 520-621-7201 (Tribal Extension)

Phone: 520-621-6245 (Ag Econ Office)

Fax: 520-621-7196

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[CoopExt_PRIMARY-Tribal Extension Programs]

The University of Arizona’s main campus is

located on the traditional lands of the Tohono

O'odham and Pascua Yaqui peoples. As a land

grant institution serving the entire state, we

also acknowledge that the places in which we

work and live are the homelands of twenty

additional Tribal Nations here in Arizona.

We pay respect to their cultures and histories,

as well as to Indigenous Peoples everywhere,

when we work to foster a diverse and inclusive

Wildcat community.

From: Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) <Silver at ag.arizona.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, 3 March, 2020 5:38 PM
To: EAT <eat at cals.arizona.edu>; 'ced at list.cals.arizona.edu' <ced at list.cals.arizona.edu>
Subject: FW: High Country News REQUEST FOR COMMENT

FYI….

Jeffrey C. Silvertooth, Ph.D.

Associate Dean

Director for Extension & Economic Development

Divison of Agricultural, Life, & Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension

Forbes 301, Bldg. #36

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ       85721-0036

520-621-7205

From: Sigurdson, Chris W - (sig) <sig at arizona.edu<mailto:sig at arizona.edu>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:09 PM
To: Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) <Silver at ag.arizona.edu<mailto:Silver at ag.arizona.edu>>; Antin, Parker B - (pba) <pba at email.arizona.edu<mailto:pba at email.arizona.edu>>; Rutledge, Bethany S - (rutledge) <rutledge at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:rutledge at cals.arizona.edu>>; Burgess, Shane C - (shaneburgess) <sburgess at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:sburgess at cals.arizona.edu>>
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Subject: FYI: High Country News REQUEST FOR COMMENT

Jeff, Parker, Bethany and Shane,

Please know that High Country News is planning coverage in the near-future on the source of the lands used to fund the land-grant universities from 1862 (Morrill) through Hatch and on to Smith-Lever. Their conclusion is that all of those lands were taken from tribal nations.

They asked ten LGU’s for comment. We chose to send them the attached statement from APLU.

You can read more about HCN’s query below.

Thanks,

Chris

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From: Tristan Ahtone <tristanahtone at hcn.org<mailto:tristanahtone at hcn.org>>
Date: February 25, 2020 at 7:02:03 AM MST
To: "Scott, Pam - (pscott)" <pscott at arizona.edu<mailto:pscott at arizona.edu>>, "Mittan, Kyle M - (mittank)" <mittank at arizona.edu<mailto:mittank at arizona.edu>>
Subject: REQUEST FOR COMMENT

Hi Kyle, Pam. I'm reaching out for comment on an investigative story we have been working on.

Over the past two years, High Country News has located more than 99% of all Morrill Act acres, identified their original, Indigenous inhabitants and care-takers, and researched the principal raised from their sale in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We reconstructed approximately 10.9 million acres taken from nearly 250 tribes, bands, and communities through over 160 violence-backed land cessions.

Powered by data and documents drawn from the General Land Office, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Archives, state and university archives, and university and federal publications, our data reveals that land grant universities turned Indigenous land into seed capital, facilitating a massive wealth transfer from tribal nations to U.S. colleges.

Our data reveals that University of Arizona received a 100% interest in the proceeds from an agricultural college endowment for the state of AZ in the amount of 143,684 acres of land under the Morrill Act of 1862 (or in lieu thereof) and raised a principal and/or retained unsold lands worth approximately $450,000 by 1914. Our data also shows that those acres came into the United States possession through 6 Indigenous land cession events for which the United States paid approximately $354. Specifically, land selected for the University of Arizona was once the home of the Pima, Yuman, Tohono O'odham, Navajo and Apache — nearly all land that was seized without payment at the end of the Apache War and the arrest of Geronimo.

How does your university respond to this information?

I have a few additional questions I'm hoping can be answered so we can include response in our reporting:

- Is your institution aware of where its Morrill Act parcels came?
- Is your institution aware of what land cessions were made by tribal nations in order to make those Morrill parcels available?
- Has your institution conducted any analysis of the initial, financial impact made by the acquisition and sale of Morrill Act parcels?
- What actions has your institution taken to acknowledge its Morrill history including its impacts on tribal nations?
- What policies guide your institution's teaching of the history of the Morrill Act and does that history include Indigenous people?

The deadline to respond is March 2. Thank you for your time.

Tristan

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