As Native tuition program gains traction, tribal advocates criticize University of Wyoming's delays

As Native tuition program gains traction, tribal advocates criticize University of Wyoming's delays

The University of Wyoming is a land grant university, meaning revenue from lands the federal government gave to Wyoming helped generate the school’s endowment. The United States seized vast swaths of those lands from tribes — sometimes for little or no money — and gifted them to the new state to benefit public education. UW still receives the funds generated from leasing those lands.  That is one reason Wyoming’s Northern Arapaho and Eastern Sho…