The article discusses the financial struggles faced by Indigenous students at the University of Arizona, despite the university's efforts to support Indigenous students through programs like the Arizona Native Scholars Grant. The university benefits from state trust lands, which were originally taken from Indigenous communities and are managed for the school's benefit. These lands, totaling almost 1.4 million acres, generate revenue for the university, but contradict its commitment to recognizing past injustices and threaten its climate commitments. The article also highlights the broader issue of land-grant universities benefiting from the expropriation of Indigenous territories.

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