Native American Displacement and Land Grant Universities

Land grant colleges and universities, primarily established under the Morrill Act in 1862, have long been praised for the democratization of higher education (although democratization generally meant white males). But whose land was granted for founding those schools? In the last decade scholars have focused on the fact that almost 11 million acres of land previously inhabited by Native Americans and taken over by the federal government through one means or another was the source of funding under the Morrill Act. Learn more about how land in the west funded schools in the east as well as continuing sources of income through extractive processes in this week's resources.