Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Bill Fash W - 9:00am to 11:45am This course provides a broad overview of the archaeology of ancient Mexico and Central America, focusing on the Indigenous cultures of highland Mexico such as the Aztecs and...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
Born and raised in Hidalgo, Texas, a border town in South Texas, Alejandra grew up navigating multiple cultures, languages, and socioeconomic contexts which proved to be instrumental in developing the skills necessary to lead constructive dialogue between...