In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which distributed public domain lands to raise funds for new colleges across the nation. The Morrill Act worked by turning land taken away from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. Land-grant universities were not only built on Indigenous land, but with Indigenous land.

High Country News (Paonia, CO) has located more than 99% of all Morrill Act acres, identified their original Indigenous inhab-itants and caretakers, and researched the principal raised from their sale in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

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Sources

Morrill Act [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities

Land-grab universities [Text]. Retrieved from https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities

Why Treaties Matter | NPR [Youtube]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexvE4lZRGo

Where We Stand [Online Image, Text]. Retrieved from https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/where-we-stand/

Why Treaties Matter [Online Image, Text]. Retrieved from http://treatiesmatter.org/exhibit/

Amazon [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Asian-Americans-Season-1/dp/B088C3XZCY

Lakota People's Law Project [Online Image, Text]. Retrieved from https://action.lakotalaw.org/

Dakota Wicohan [Online Image, Text]. Retrieved from https://dakotawicohan.org/

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