Before it became home to the Wolfpack, the land beneath NC State University held a much older story, one belonging to the Tuscarora, Lumbee and Saponi peoples. Established in 1887 under the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, NC State’s creation was made possible through the land once seized from Native nations across the United States.
The Morrill Act authorized the U.S. government to appropriate nearly 11 million acres of Indigenous land from more than 250 tribes, subsequently selling these lands to finance higher education institutions across the country.
NC State University, along with numerous other land-grant universities, was established using funds generated through this process…