“To Know There's Other Indigenous People in Your School is Nice”: Urban Indigenous Civic Identity

Abstract

This critical participatory ethnographic study examines the negotiation of civic identity by eight Indigenous students in an urban public high school. Using Tribal Critical Race Theory to understand the experiences of students, stories from observations, participant interviews, and focus groups were employed as data. This study, examines data from a larger study and finds the studied school was vital as a civic site for these negotiations and a Zone of Sovereignty forwarding survivance and self-determination for Indigenous students.