Conundrums like this, whether institutions born to uphold colonial order can ever be truly decolonized or Indigenized, leave me yearning to return to my homelands and sit in quiet counsel with elders. Because honestly? I’m confounded. And I don’t say that as someone who idealizes a precolonial past. What moves me is imagining futures that braid together the best of Indigenous worldviews with the most life-affirming parts of modernity. But there’s a question I can’t shake: if an institution’s ver