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UNCOVERING BEAUTY IN A NARRATIVE OF TRAGEDY: NATIVE STUDENTS’ COUNTER NARRATIVES TO DEFICIT DISCOURSE

Jaime Nolan

The purpose of this research was to understand how a group of Native students attending South Dakota State University (SDSU) understand their educational experiences in the context of the multiple cultures they must negotiate in education institutions that have been historically structured to privilege the dominant, White culture and deculturalize the Other.

This research required that I critically analyze my role in American Indian higher education from my position as a mixed-race university administrator and teacher. A deeper understanding of Native students’ educational, community, cultural experiences, and histories, might impel higher education institutions to critically reflect on the historic role of education in a legacy of structural oppression and violence against Native p