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Goodbye, Cherokee Princess: Extractive Settler Genealogy and the Transmission of a Toxic Trope
The “Cherokee Princess” is a well known stock figure of settler family lore in the US (and elsewhere), a vague and mythical great-great-grandmother invoked by many non-Native people to lay ancestral claim to contemporary Indigenous belonging and resources...
ENGLISH 187ND: Indigenous Literatures of the Other-than-Human
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Chris Pexa M, W - 1:30pm to 2:45pm “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 interviews...
GENED 1044: Deep History
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professors: Matt Liebmann & Dan Smail T, TH - 12:00pm to 1:15pm When does history begin? To judge by the typical history textbook, the answer is straightforward: six thousand years ago. So what about the tens of thousands of...
HDS 2082: Spiritual Paths to Abstract Art
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Ann Braude TH - 12:00pm to 2:00pm Approaching 20th-century abstract art through the lens of religious studies, this course explores alternatives to twentieth-century narratives of modern art centered on the...
HIST 2492A: Warren Center Seminar: Alternative Ecologies
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professors: Tiya Miles & Walter Johnson Th - 12:45pm to 2:45pm This seminar will convene scholars, public-facing intellectuals, writers, and practitioners whose work falls under the broad umbrella of ecological study and care...
AFVS 187: Indigenous Cinema
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Sky Hopinka W - 12:45pm to 2:45pm This seminar looks at contemporary and historical documentary, narrative, and experimental films made by Indigenous filmmakers and artists. The focus is primarily on North America...
EMR 1030: Topics in Native American and Indigenous Studies: Native North America
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Mandy Izadi W - 3:00pm to 5:45pm 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, or...
EMR 158: Land, Labor, Legacies: New Perspectives on Black and Indigenous Histories
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Mandy Izadi M - 12:45pm to 3:00pm The study of North America, at its root, is the study of Native America and African America. Typically, scholarship on the first Americans—and Africans and their descendants—are...
HIST 16G: Echoes of the Past: Indigenous Retellings of Conquest & Colonialism
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Adriana Zenteno Hopp T - 3:00pm to 5:45pm How might Montezuma, the Aztec ruler, or Atahuallpa, the Inca emperor, have told the story of their respective encounters with Europeans? Too often, indigenous voices are...
HIST-LIT 90GR
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Morgan Ridgway M - 3:00pm to 5:00pm How do gender and sexuality shape Indigenous life? What does it mean for the body to be a site for both colonial violence and imaginative futures? How have constructions, ideas...