@article{10.5749/jamerindieduc.56.1.0032,
 ISSN = {00218731, 23793651},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jamerindieduc.56.1.0032},
 abstract = {Native students often face hostile and unwelcoming environments when they enter Non-Native Colleges and Universities. While conversations about racism in higher education have addressed the prevalence of racial microaggressions among marginalized populations, the issue of racial microaggressions against Native doctoral students, specifically Native women, has not been adequately addressed. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, this study explores the experiences of Native women in doctoral education in the United States. The findings indicate that encounters with racism, particularly racial microaggressions, were common experiences for Native women in doctoral programs. Racial microaggressions were experienced in the overall campus climate, the classroom, and in encounters with White peers and faculty in the form of microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations. The findings also provide insight into the complex and unique nature of racism experienced by Native women in doctoral education and demonstrate the need for deeper conversations that interrogate systemic, structural, and subtle forms of racism against Native people in higher education.},
 author = {Heather J. Shotton},
 journal = {Journal of American Indian Education},
 number = {1},
 pages = {32--54},
 publisher = {University of Minnesota Press},
 title = {“I Thought You'd Call Her White Feather”: Native Women and Racial Microaggressions in Doctoral Education},
 volume = {56},
 year = {2017}
}