“…Practitioners reporting racialized data often ignore: root causes of oppression; differential access to equitable education through chronic underfunding of rural, reserve, and urban schools; effects of historical and ongoing colonization from continued land theft and various forms of forced poverty; classroom discourses that relegate Indigenous cultures and knowledge's to the multicultural melting pot; the ways whiteness operates in legal and educational institutions to construct mixed-race identities; the enduring aspects of cultural knowledge; and the ways schooling contexts are complicit in maintaining inequity through classroom interactions and curricula that touts ideologies of meritocracy, modernity, and colorblindness (Battiste, 1986(Battiste, , 2011(Battiste, , 2013King, 1991;Ladson-Billings, 1998Kumashiro, 2000Kumashiro, , 2001Kumashiro, , 2004Dei, 2001;St. Denis, 2004, 2007Brayboy, 2006;Wilson and Macdonald, 2010;Leonardo, 2013;Goulet and Goulet, 2014;Battey and Leyva, 2016;Gillies, 2017Gillies, , 2021Stavrou and Miller, 2017).…”