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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Teegerstrom, Trent - (tteegers) <tteegers@ag.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 4, 2020 7:45:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) <Silver@ag.arizona.edu>; EAT <eat@cals.arizona.edu>; 'ced@list.cals.arizona.edu' <ced@list.cals.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: High Country News REQUEST FOR COMMENT</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Trent Teegerstrom</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Associate Director for Tribal Extension Programs and Ag Economics Extension Specialist The University of Arizona</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">1140 E. South Campus Dr.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Tucson, AZ 85721-0036</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Phone: 520-621-7201 (Tribal Extension)</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Phone: 520-621-6245 (Ag Econ Office)</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Fax: 520-621-7196</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:tteegers@ag.arizona.edu%3cmailto:tteegers@ag.arizona.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">tteegers@ag.arizona.edu<mailto:tteegers@ag.arizona.edu</span></a>></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496; background:white">The University of Arizona’s main campus is
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496; background:white">O'odham and Pascua Yaqui peoples. As a land
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496; background:white">also acknowledge that the places in which we</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496; background:white">additional Tribal Nations here in Arizona.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496; background:white">We pay respect to their cultures and histories,</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) <Silver@ag.arizona.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 3 March, 2020 5:38 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> EAT <eat@cals.arizona.edu>; 'ced@list.cals.arizona.edu' <ced@list.cals.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: High Country News REQUEST FOR COMMENT</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Jeffrey C. Silvertooth, Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Associate Dean</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Director for Extension & Economic Development</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Divison of Agricultural, Life, & Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Forbes 301, Bldg. #36</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Arizona</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">520-621-7205</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Sigurdson, Chris W - (sig) <<a href="mailto:sig@arizona.edu">sig@arizona.edu</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) <<a href="mailto:Silver@ag.arizona.edu">Silver@ag.arizona.edu</a>>; Antin, Parker B - (pba) <<a href="mailto:pba@email.arizona.edu">pba@email.arizona.edu</a>>; Rutledge, Bethany S - (rutledge) <<a href="mailto:rutledge@cals.arizona.edu">rutledge@cals.arizona.edu</a>>;
Burgess, Shane C - (shaneburgess) <<a href="mailto:sburgess@cals.arizona.edu">sburgess@cals.arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Scott, Pam - (pscott) <<a href="mailto:pscott@arizona.edu">pscott@arizona.edu</a>>; Moore, Steven Briggs - (stevemoore) <<a href="mailto:stevemoore@arizona.edu">stevemoore@arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FYI: High Country News REQUEST FOR COMMENT</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Jeff, Parker, Bethany and Shane,</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">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
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">They asked ten LGU’s for comment. We chose to send them the attached statement from APLU.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; color:#0C234B">Chris W Sigurdson</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#767676"><br>
Communications<br>
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA<br>
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Office: (520) 626-9422 </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#767676">| </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#767676">Cell: (765) 404-5959 <br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>From:</b> Tristan Ahtone <<a href="mailto:tristanahtone@hcn.org">tristanahtone@hcn.org</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> February 25, 2020 at 7:02:03 AM MST<br>
<b>To:</b> "Scott, Pam - (pscott)" <<a href="mailto:pscott@arizona.edu">pscott@arizona.edu</a>>, "Mittan, Kyle M - (mittank)" <<a href="mailto:mittank@arizona.edu">mittank@arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>REQUEST FOR COMMENT</b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hi Kyle, Pam. I'm reaching out for comment on an investigative story we have been working on.<br>
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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.
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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.<br>
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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.
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How does your university respond to this information?<br>
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I have a few additional questions I'm hoping can be answered so we can include response in our reporting:
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- Is your institution aware of where its Morrill Act parcels came?<br>
- Is your institution aware of what land cessions were made by tribal nations in order to make those Morrill parcels available?<br>
- Has your institution conducted any analysis of the initial, financial impact made by the acquisition and sale of Morrill Act parcels?<br>
- What actions has your institution taken to acknowledge its Morrill history including its impacts on tribal nations?
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- What policies guide your institution's teaching of the history of the Morrill Act and does that history include Indigenous people?<br>
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The deadline to respond is March 2. Thank you for your time. <br>
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