On this episode of the Migrations: A World on the Move podcast, we learn from Professor Kurt Jordan and Laiken Jordahl about dispossession: what it is and how it is affecting Indigenous people, wildlife, and ecosystems. Jordan works in the Finger Lakes region of New York, studying the effects of institutions like Cornell on the Indigenous populations of the region. Jordahl is an activist and ally helping to bring awareness to the harm caused by wall construction at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The following is taken from the Present Value podcast, founded in fall 2017 by two Cornell MBA students. This episode was originally released on February 22, 2021.
In this episode, with host María Castex, Professor Jon Parmenter discusses his research on indigenous dispossession and Cornell University’s legacy as a land grant institution. In October of 2020, Parmenter wrote a blog post titled Flipped Scrip, Flipping the Script: The Morrill Act of 1862, Cornell University, and the Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Indigenous Dispossession. This episode discusses the Morrill Act and its further implications in detail, along with the degree to which we must confront this history and engage in discourse and the broader process of redress.
The podcast episodes are researched, written, edited, and sound engineered by the MBA student producers. Each episode has one host, supported by a student production team.
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Transcript
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Speakers
Jon Parmenter, associate professor of history at Cornell University
María Castex ’21, Cornell MBA student
Kimberly Fuqua ’21, Cornell MPA student
The following is taken from The Humanities Pod, funded by The Society for the Humanities at Cornell originally posted to their website on January 21, 2021. Informal conversations with Society Fellows, Cornell Faculty, community collaborators, and special guests shine a light on some of the new work, the current conversations, and the latest ideas of humanists at and around Cornell.
This podcast further addresses the relationship between Cornell University’s founding in 1862 under the Morrill Act and the United States’ prior dispossession of Indigenous nations’ homelands that provided the “public lands” utilized to fund land-grant colleges and universities.
Speakers
Jon Parmenter, associate professor of history at Cornell University
Paul Fleming, Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities
Michael Witgen, professor and former director of Native American Studies at the University of Michigan
Transcript
The following is taken from The Humanities Pod, funded by The Society for the Humanities at Cornell originally posted to their website on December 14, 2020. Informal conversations with Society Fellows, Cornell Faculty, community collaborators, and special guests shine a light on some of the new work, the current conversations, and the latest ideas of humanists at and around Cornell.
This podcast addresses the relationship between Cornell University’s founding in 1862 under the Morrill Act and the United States’ prior dispossession of Indigenous nations’ homelands that provided the “public lands” utilized to fund land-grant colleges and universities.
Speakers
Jon Parmenter, associate professor of history at Cornell University
Paul Fleming, Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities