Erin Genia, MPA –Tribal Governance student

Across North America, college and university campuses are sites of academic exploitation of tribal peoples’ cultures—today and throughout history. This exploitation occurs when scholars use corrupt research practices, and also when teachers perpetuate theories and values that are detrimental to tribal peoples in their classrooms. When those theories and values expand outward into communities with their graduates, they affect the worldviews and political agendas of the public.