Identity drum: an indigenous framework exploring identity loss, discovery and recovery through autoethnography

My thesis used an Indigenous framework to explore my Indigenous identity loss, discovery and recovery that I have experienced throughout my life. I have done this by braiding together the struggles of my own lived experiences of Indigenous identity loss, and identity recovery, with research that examines how Indigenous identity loss, and identity recovery can affect one‘s own personal identity as they grow up. The story work in my thesis explores the effects of colonization that Aboriginal children and youth may have experienced, and how historical trauma may be passed on throughout generations, affecting one‘s identity. I have done this by discussing my personal lived experiences of Indigenous identity loss from birth, and throughout my childhood. Further I examined the lack of opportunity, and the lack of concrete structures that were not in place for me to explore my Indigenous identity for who I was and from where... .