Before universities profited from stolen Indigenous territory through "land-grants," schools like The University of North Carolina sold Indigenous lands hundreds of miles away from their campuses.
Lucas P. Kelley & Garrett W. Wright
Lucas Kelley is a PhD candidate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill currently completing a dissertation on American speculation and Native sovereignty in the Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and has explored UNC's investment in Cherokee and Chickasaw dispossession.
Primarily a historian of the Great Plains, Dr. Garrett Wright has conducted extensive archaeological and archival research on Indigenous histories of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a research assistant for the UNC Historical Task Force.