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I recently attended the Land-Grab Universities Roundtable Discussion: Reckoning with the Past to Build the Future of Education at my university, NC State. The discussion focused on the award-winning investigative story, “Land-grab universities, Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.” The College of Education’s Student Services and Advising Center hosted author Tristan Ahtone (member of the Kiowa Tribe and Editor at Large at Grist) and cartographer Margaret Pearce (Citizen Potawatomi tribal member and 2022 National Geographic Wayfinder Award recipient) to answer questions and engage in discussion about their approach to inquiry and how educators can make use of their methods in the classroom. Land-grab universities combines narrative,...