Cornell University owns a severed fifty-percent mineral interest on 155,340 acres of land in twelve northern Wisconsin counties – a legacy of the public lands allocated by the Morrill Act of 1862. On one 160-acre parcel within that portfolio lies the Blue Hills Pipestone Quarry, a sacred site listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as the Wajiwan ji Mashkode Archaeological District. Professor St. Germaine will speak on the historic relationship of northern Wisconsin’s Anishinaabeg communities to the Quarry, how that relationship has been disrupted by non-Indigenous ownership of the Quarry, and what improved access to the Quarry and its culturally significant resources would mean to members of those communities.

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