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Performance or Progress? The Physical and Rhetorical Removal of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Land Acknowledgments at Land-Grab Universities
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Ambo, Theresa; Rocha Beardall, Theresa – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Land acknowledgments are an evolving practice to recognize local Indigenous Peoples as traditional stewards of their homelands. Using a content and discourse analysis, we conduct the first empirical study of U.S. land acknowledgment statements focusing on the 47 land-grab universities created under the 1862 Morrill Act. We find that LGUs tend to…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Indigenous Populations
From "Cultivators of the Soil" to "Citizen-Soldiers": Physically Active Education and the Nation at Maryland Agricultural College
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Clevenger, Samuel M.; Jette, Shannon – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
In 1866, military drill and instruction became part of the curriculum of Maryland Agricultural College as a result of the passage of the Morrill Act of 1862, a law setting the terms for the establishment of agricultural colleges across the USA. The introduction of military instruction meant a direct inclusion of physically active coursework that…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational History, Physical Activities, Agricultural Colleges