Survivance of Native American and Indigenous Students at a Four-year Hispanic-Serving Institution
Publication Date
10-27-2025
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
InternatIonal Journal of QualItatIve Studies in EducatIon
DOI
10.1080/09518398.2025.2574965
Abstract
Utilizing Brayboy’s Tribal Critical Race Theory and Vizenor’s theory of Survivance, the researchers, who are members of the Native and Indigenous faculty and staff affinity group, partnered with the Native American Student Organization to conduct this collaborative study investigating Native American and Indigenous student experiences at a Hispanic-serving institution. The researchers present the findings from three focus group discussions with eleven undergraduate Native American and Indigenous students from ten tribal nations: seven nations in the United States, two in Central America, and one in South America. Using thematic analysis, the research team agreed upon six themes: Lack of belonging and Native community; Racism and microaggressions; Erasure and marginalization of Indigeneity; Broken promises; Forms of Survivance; and What NAI students want from the university. This is one of the few studies to focus on Native American and Indigenous student experiences at a Hispanic-serving institution.
Keywords
Native American, Indigenous, Hispanic serving institution, Microaggressions, Survivance, Higher education
Department
Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences; Justice Studies
Recommended Citation
Veneice Guillory-Lacy, Kerri J. Malloy, Jodie Warren, Elisa Aquino, and Soma de Bourbon. "Survivance of Native American and Indigenous Students at a Four-year Hispanic-Serving Institution" InternatIonal Journal of QualItatIve Studies in EducatIon (2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2025.2574965
