1862

Morrill Act funds colleges through land grants

United States; Indigenous landholders

Federal land grants financed state institutions of higher education. Dunbar-Ortiz connects that public benefit to the conversion of Indigenous lands into a revenue source.

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Context / qualification

Land-grant financing, not an explicit law excluding students by race; institutional admission rules were separate.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8

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