Land in American Studies is conceived as specific to both place and people, thanks to Native studies interventions. Agleška Cohen-Rencountre's research explores the connections between the Black Hills and Virginia as both a federal-institutional networks and indigenized kinship. Not coincidentally, the federal boarding school in Rapid City, South Dakota, and all others, are rooted in poignant ways within the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institutional foundations or what is now the Hampton University of Virginia. Focusing on the Hampton University reveals not only an institution where Black student excellence is celebrated–and rightly so–but also where Native students remain centered in the school’s cemetery. How those students remains are interpreted presents questions that this discussion touches on with an emphasis on Native American kinship making.