This conceptual paper examines the colonial conditions of possibility for a formative moment of US public higher education, the Morrill Act of 1862, and considers how these conditions continue to shape the present. The federal government's accumulation of Indigenous lands in the nineteenth century helped provide the material base for land-grant…

Land-grant colleges were created in the mid-nineteenth century when the federal government sold off public lands and allowed states to use that money to create colleges. The land that was sold to support colleges was available because of a deliberate project to dispossess American Indians of land they inhabited. By encouraging westward migration,…

This report describes amounts and sources of education funding for land-grant schools, especially programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and major funding sources for historically black or tribal land-grant schools. The report identifies and describes a total of 24 programs, with budget requests of $1.245.1 billion in fiscal year…

Discusses land-grant legislation of the past century and how it has, and will continue to, affect tribal colleges and rural America. (YKH)