Oregon state university is a land grant institution, meaning that through a grant of land, the college was started. what tribe ceded land to the us government in 1855, which would later make corvallis state agricultural college, a land grant institution?

The Kalapuya tribe ceded all claims to lands in the county through the Treaty of Dayton (1855). In 1851, Anson Dart, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon began treaty negotiations with the Kalapuyas. The article entitled "The Kalapuya: a Wealthy Way of Life" further elaborates on the negotiations: "Chiefs and headmen of the Winnefelly, Mohawk River, Chapen, Tecopa, Santiam, Mary's River, and Ahntchuyuk tribes and bands of Kalapuya(s) signed the 1855 Dayton Treaty with (then) Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Joel Palmer ... Together with other neighboring Willamette Valley tribes, they ceded territory stretching from the Columbia River to the Calapooia Mountains between the coastal and Cascade mountain ranges."