[Lgpolicy] US - Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

[Francis M. Hult via Lgpolicy]

Grist

Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university
system.

Starting in the 1780s, federal authorities began aggressively taking Native
land before surveying and selling parcels to new owners. Treaties were the
preferred instrument, accompanied by a range of executive orders and
congressional acts. Behind their tidy legal language and token payments lay
actual or threatened violence, or the use of debts or dire conditions, such
as starvation, to coerce signatures from Indigenous peoples and compel
relocation.

[...]

Primary and secondary schools, or K-12 schools, were the greatest
beneficiaries by far, followed by institutions of higher education. What
remains of them today are referred to as trust lands. “A perpetual,
multigenerational land trust for the support of the Beneficiaries and
future generations” is how the Arizona State Land Department describes them.

Higher education grants were earmarked for universities, teachers colleges,
mining schools, scientific schools, and agricultural colleges, the latter
being the means through which states that joined the Union after 1862 got
their Morrill Act shares.

Full story:
https://grist.org/project/equity/land-grant-universities-indigenous-lands-fossil-fuels/
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