Daughter of the Pacific / Hånom i Lina’la’-Mni Wiconi / Indigenous CHamoru (Jeje yan Romeo) & Kānaka Maoli in diaspora / @StopCorpAbuse Senior Water Organizer
Apr 10, 2020 • 16 tweets • 12 min read
10.7 million acres taken from nearly 250 tribes through over 160 violence-backed land cessions for the benefit of 52 universities. Here's how my alma mater benefited. I take a quick look using the data from landgrabu.org THREAD:
While my alma mater @Reed_College_ is not an #LGU, it is on treaty land taken from the Calapooia [Kalapuya] (@CTGRgov) and the Confederated Bands of Willamette Valley. Those treaty lands were sold for the benefit of LGUs in AL, DE, IL, NC, OR, SC, TX, VA, & WV.
