Urban Indigenous Students Negotiating Civic Identity in a Public School

• In Event: Research for Survivance: Indigenous Educational Praxis

Abstract

This critical ethnographic study examines how Indigenous students in an urban public high school negotiated their civic identities in social studies classrooms,a Native youth council, and within the space of the high school.Indigenous civic constructs of sovereignty, self-determination and dual citizenship along with the study of federal Indian policy are examined within the always already colonized spaces of American schools.

Author

• Rachel Talbert, Teachers College, Columbia University