Parcel Polygons (Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database)
Description
This shapefile contains 79,360 unique polygons representing parcels distributed through the Morrill Act (or acts in lieu thereof). It can be joined to the Parcels.csv using the field named MTRSA_LG., This data was created for the Land Grab Universities project. https://www.landgrabu.org
Creator
Lee, Robert (Historian)
Publisher
High Country News
Subject
Indigenous people, American Indians, Land grants, Colonization
Lee, Robert (Historian) (2020). Parcel Polygons (Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database). High Country News. https://github.com/HCN-Digital-Projects/landgrabu-data/tree/master/Morrill_Act_of_1862_Indigenous_Land_Parcels_Database/Shapefiles (dataset)