Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Joe Gone M - 12:00pm to 2:45pm American Indian, First Nations, and other Indigenous communities of the USA and Canada contend with disproportionately high rates of “psychiatric” distress. Many of these communities...
Semester: Winter Offered: 2024 Professors: Joseph Kalt and Angela Riley M-F - 10:00am to 4:30pm This course examines the challenges that contemporary Native American tribes and nations face as they endeavor to rebuild their communities, strengthen their...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Matthew Liebmann M, W - 12:00pm to 1:15pm What happened in America before 1492? What were the major turning points in Native American history? Why don't we know more about the ancient history of North America...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Chris Pexa W - 9:00am to 11:45am This seminar gives a broad overview of key theoretical interventions in the emergent, international, and interdisciplinary field of Critical Indigenous Studies. Our exploration...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Christopher Pexa M, W - 12:00pm to 1:15pm “Indians are an invention,” declares an unnamed hunter in Gerald Vizenor’s (White Earth Ojibwe) 1978 novel, Bearheart. The hunter’s point, as Vizenor has explained in...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Daniel Heath Justice Th - 9:00am to 11:45am The past forty years have seen significant methodological and theoretical shifts in the scholarly field of Indigenous literary studies, moving from ethnographically...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Americo Mendoza-Mori M, W - 3:00pm to 4:15pm Throughout centuries, Indigenous communities have developed knowledge systems and practices that allow them to foster meaningful connections with natural environments...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Alan Corbiere T, TH - 1:30pm to 2:45pm This class focuses on Indigenous art from the pre-contact era to the modern day, concentrating on the Great Lakes area and its peripheries. The course will explore enduring...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Mandy Izadi M, W - 1:30pm to 2:45pm The first Americans met Europeans on their shores over five hundred years ago. They made the continent theirs millennia prior. And yet, Indigenous Americans are often missing...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Jorge Sanchez Cruz W - 12:45pm to 2:45pm This course studies the “afterlife” of colonialism, exploring forms of protest that emanate from indigenous territories and subjectivities and within indigenous community...