This qualitative study examined the Native American Graduate Student experience at the University of Oklahoma. Native American graduate students who are enrolled members of their tribes were included in this study. Participants reported membership to Choctaw, Shawnee, Pawnee, Creek, Comanche, Taos Pueblo, Navajo tribes. Participants were interviewed in two separate groups across three meetings to elicit comments about their experience of graduate school. After conducting interviews with participants, data was analyzed for themes reflecting their various experiences. The study identified 13 themes (Appropriation, Alienation, Surviving rather than Achieving, Lateral Oppression, Respectability Politics, Internalization, Structural Posturing, Christian Colonization, Fungibility, Participation, Self-Love, and Decolonization) of participant experiences.