ABSTRACT
I work at a two-year institution situated on land taken from the Dakota people between highways that carry mostly White people to wide-open suburban neighborhoods. I work at an institution that splashes Black and Brown and Native faces on its website but only graduates 5%–8% of students of color. 1 I work a few blocks from the Walker Art Center, an internationally renowned modern art museum that Native activists pressured to dismantle a sculpture that was constructed to look like the gallows that hanged 38 Dakota men near Mankato, Minnesota, in 1862 (Cascone). I have a degree from a land-grant university and I work in a settler colonialist profession that harkens back to the Native boarding schools.
