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Stein, Sharon – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
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…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Land Settlement