ABSTRACT
TribalCrit begins with the recognition that colonization is endemic to society. The focus on Eurocentric ideology has been used to establish hierarchies wherein the philosophies, worldviews, and languages of Indigenous people(s) have been stripped of value and relegated to the periphery as archaic or irrelevant. “Eurocentric thinkers dismissed Indigenous knowledge in the same way they dismissed any socio-political cultural life they did not understand: they found it to be unsystematic and incapable of meeting the productivity needs of the modern world”. An additional complication with the third intersecting plane is that legal/political status depends upon the Constitution, Supreme Court rulings from the early nineteenth century, and legal statutes and treaties from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that locate Indigenous peoples in the past. TribalCrit endeavors to expose the inconsistencies in structural systems and institutions—like colleges and universities—and make the situation better.
