Event Details - Sandwich Seminar

 Sandwich Seminar: Cayuga Land Claim History and the Selling of Frontier New York

Building upon his service as expert witness in the Cayuga Land Claim trials of 1999-2001, Professor Anderson traces the history of land sales in the territory on the northern side of Cayuga Lake outlined in his 2024 book, Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga Reservation (Cornell University Press). Professor Moranda provides comment on the relevance of this new work to the history of land use in the U.S.