![]() Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education 29(3) Spring 2018. ![]() A time for substance: Confronting funding inequities at land grant institutions. In heavily forested and agriculturally viable areas like Indiana, in 1813 prior to statehood, early European settlers were even known to feed their livestock fodder from the unharvested crops left behind when tribes were banished from their homes and farms in late Fall. The remaining ceded lands were made available to homesteaders with a rarely kept promise to farm the lands for five years for $1.25 per acre, and would form the original economic base that fueled further westward expansion by settlers. Large urban areas replaced forests, meadows and gardens. Much of the ceded or seized land became used for the timber industry and homesteading, as well as railroads and large scale farming, dairy farming, and ranching (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2022). Land with minerals was not to be sold for LGUs, according to stipulations of the Morrill Act, leaving forests, wetlands and agricultural lands to bear the weight of transition out from indigenous stewardship. Land that was purchased from the Chippewa through the treaties of 18 cost the government 8¢ and 7¢ per acre respectively, while land taken by force was much more costly to the US, so treaties were the preferred method of land acquisition (LaDuke, 2014). ![]() ![]() The sale of 380,440 acres of indigenous lands, from California to Michigan, raised $212,149 to fund Purdue University alone. The cession and subsequent sale of lands by treaty, unratified treaty, or seizure without treaty, used to fund LGUs in each state, territory, and the District of Columbia, had long-reaching impacts on the 245 indigenous tribes and bands affected (Atone and Lee, 2020). ![]()
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