Tracking the History of Land-Grant Enrichment at the University of Arizona

An interactive story map built by the James E. Rogers College of Law Land-Grant Project Team, the goal of the University of Arizona Land-Grant Project is two-fold:

(1) to research, share, and begin to understand how the University of Arizona has been enriched from the 19th century dispossession of Native nations' land in Arizona; and,

(2) to provide students, faculty, researchers, and Arizona residents with an authoritative source of information and documentation about our history which will serve as a launching pad for further investigation, ground-breaking research, and original scholarship.

The digital resource brings together the early history of Arizona Territory including Native land cessions, the founding of the University of Arizona, and the Morrill land-grant acts and related legislation. The project also illustrates through interactive maps some 775,012 acres of land that have been positively identified as having been transferred to the Arizona State Land Trust since statehood for the benefit and enrichment of the University of Arizona, to the detriment of Arizona's Native nations. The team continues to track down and locate land records that are associated with our land-grant status. The team welcomes input, provide feedback here.