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...
Professor Robert Warrior 2024 Fall Term Wednesdays, 3:00 PM - 4:45 PM Religion and theology, especially Christianity, played a constitutive role in the emergence of intellectual work in colonial languages by Indigenous authors and continue as important...
Professor Robert Warrior 2024 Fall Term Thursdays, 3:00 - 5:00 PM This course focuses on the ways Indigenous artists and media makers represent embodied religious and spiritual experiences in their work. In considering how embodiment and various forms of...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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: 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...