Opinion
GUEST ROOM | Cornell Holds Sacred Mineral Rights: It’s Time to Return Them
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There is no more time to be lost. Cornell should return mineral rights to their rightful owners and affirm their commitment to university values.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/wisconsin/)
There is no more time to be lost. Cornell should return mineral rights to their rightful owners and affirm their commitment to university values.
Indigenous communities at Cornell and in Wisconsin bring to light the University’s ties to over 100,000 acres of northern Wisconsin land.
Career educator and knowledge-keeper for the Ojibwe community Rick St. Germaine said Cornell’s mineral interest on the Blue Hills Pipestone Quarry has hindered pipe-making, a key practice of the Midewiwin religion.