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...
Professor: Eric Henson TU - 12:00 to 2:45pm This community based project seminar focuses on some of the major issues Native Nations, American Indian tribes, and Indigenous communities face as they seek to assert rights of self-determination in the 21st...
Semester: Fall 2024 Professor: Brenda Croft Mondays: 12 PM - 2:45 PM Australian First Nations cultural practices, cosmological beliefs and creativity span 65,000+ years, deeply grounded in the collective cultural knowledge that we have been on the...
Instructor: Professor Brenda L Croft Fall 2024: Monday, 12.00-2:45 pm Location: Carpenter B04 (unless otherwise notified) Australian First Nations cultural practices, cosmological beliefs and creativity span 65,000+ years, deeply grounded in the...
Professor Eric Henson 2024 Fall Term Tuesdays, 12:00pm - 2:45pm This community based project seminar focuses on some of the major issues Native Nations, American Indian tribes, and Indigenous communities face as they seek to assert rights of self...
Professor Therese Lautua 2024 Fall Term Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM This course offers an introduction to the complex relationship between Christianity and Indigenous spiritualities in the Pacific, including Polynesia, Melanesia, and...