There's a new spotlight on some universities and whether they should be helping Native American students more than they are now.

That follows a new investigation that found some schools have long profited from land essentially taken from Native American

tribes and leased to industries like oil and gas.

Stephanie Sigh takes a look at the impact of this legacy on Native American students as part of our

series, Rethinking College. 19-year-old Alina Sierra long hoped to attend the

University of Arizona. Her elders, including her beloved grandfather, told her knowledge was power and an education could never be stolen.

Before he passed away, he made me promise like you're going to make it you're going to continue education

so I said yes I promise so ever since then I just like the school was always like I'm

gonna do it I'm gonna get a degree I'm gonna do it for him. But soon after she

began attending the Tucson-based college, the bill started coming due.

So I ended up getting like really nervous and I said it like freaking out with how am I going to pay for it.

She had gotten a Pell Grant and the

U of A awarded her an Arizona Native Scholars Grant which ensures mandatory

fees and tuition are covered for the state's native undergraduate students.

Alina is to Hona Otham.

But she says her meal plans weren't covered, nor was transportation or housing.

She had an hour-long bus commute to campus and initially struggled to get internet access.

I would say there's just barrier after barrier. I ended up going on academic probation because of everything I was going through and I couldn't really

focus on school and it was just like really hard.

She eventually dropped out. U of A officials did not respond to requests for comment for this story, but Felicia Tagabond Gaskin is a graduate student who runs a program for Native students there.

She says the university has not done enough.

Unfortunately, a lot of what we do around representation

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