{"id":1486433,"date":"2024-02-07T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grist.org\/?p=628604"},"modified":"2024-02-07T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:39:00","slug":"how-to-conduct-your-own-reporting-and-research-on-state-trust-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/07\/how-to-conduct-your-own-reporting-and-research-on-state-trust-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"How to conduct your own reporting and research on state trust lands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This user guide is designed for both general users and experienced researchers and coders. No coding skills are necessary to work with this dataset, but a basic working knowledge of tabular data files in Excel is required, and for more experienced users, knowledge of GIS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the past year, Grist <\/em>has located all state trust lands<\/a> distributed through state enabling acts that currently send revenue to higher education institutions that benefited from the Morrill Act<\/a>. We\u2019ve also identified their original Indigenous inhabitants and caretakers, and researched how much the United States would have paid for each parcel, based on an assessment of the cession history (according to the U.S. Forest Service\u2019s record of the land associated with each parcel). We reconstructed more than 8.2 million acres of state trust parcels taken from 123 tribes, bands, and communities through 121 different land cessions \u2014 a legal term for the giving up of territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOverview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n