When I take care of myself it makes me a better friend and student because when I take care of myself, I can spread kindness.-A third-grade student's reflection on reciprocity.Indigenous communities practice survivance. They are more than just survivors of oppression: they are actively resistant, present, and full of life (Vizenor, 2009). Survivance represents active resistance against generations of colonial and racist acts, such as violence, removal, and forced assimilation. These acts have imposed cumulative and persistent emotional and psychological distress on Indigenous peoples, known as historical trauma (Campbell & Evans-Campbell, 2011;Skewes & Blume, 2019). Despite the historical experiences of genocide and cultural erasure by White settler-colonialists, Indigenous communities continue to thrive.Indigenous survivance has also included challenging the existing social and political structures through antiracism and anti-colonialism to support their children's identity development. While anti-racism has been defined as the continual process to eradicate racism and oppression (Roberts & Rizzo, 2021), anti-colonialism, also referred as decolonization, has been defined as recognizing and combating against the settler-colonialist power and subsequent oppression of Indigenous peoples (Smith et al., 2019). Settler-colonialists (in the United States and elsewhere) employed racism as a tool to obtain land and

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Xin Zhang carries two lines of research. One line of research focuses on the role of collaborative learning and argumentation in promoting children's higher-order reasoning. The other line of research addresses cultural influences on children's social development during early adolescence.

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