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This course is
designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Native
American and Indigenous Studies. This course looks at the diverse
histories of Indigenous nations across North America, as well as
histories of shared experiences with ongoing colonialism, legacies of
resistance and connections to place. The class focuses on Indigenous
perspectives, intellectual traditions and critical interventions across
time through the work of historians, anthropologists, philosophers,
literary scholars, Indigenous knowledge keepers, poets, writers and
activists. This course is required for a Native American and Indigenous
Studies focus for American Studies majors.
- Instructor: Kaden Jelsing
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This course is
designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Native
American and Indigenous Studies. This course looks at the diverse
histories of Indigenous nations across North America, as well as
histories of shared experiences with ongoing colonialism, legacies of
resistance and connections to place. The class focuses on Indigenous
perspectives, intellectual traditions and critical interventions across
time through the work of historians, anthropologists, philosophers,
literary scholars, Indigenous knowledge keepers, poets, writers and
activists. This course is required for a Native American and Indigenous
Studies focus for American Studies majors.
- Instructor: Kaden Jelsing
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It is often noted
in mainstream news media that Indigenous peoples are “on the front
lines” of the climate crisis, while providing little explanation as to
why this is. Narratives of inherent Indigenous vulnerability obscure the
ways in which Indigenous communities have mobilized to navigate
environmental change, not only in the face of contemporary global
warming, but historically, as settler colonial incursions radically
transformed landscapes and constrained Indigenous knowledge practices
that have provided tools for adaptation for thousands of years. This
course considers how Indigenous climate vulnerability is largely a
product of settler colonialism—not only a process and system, but also a
particular way of understanding and relating to the nonhuman
environment.
- Instructor: Kaden Jelsing
Topics covered will include the various ideological strains that inform American conservatism (traditionalism, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, Christian evangelicalism, white nationalism); the affective styles and strategies that animate conservative politics; the institutional networks that support conservative coalition-building and the propagation of conservative ideas (media, think tanks, PACs); and the “tribal” polarization of the American political parties around issues such as race, gender, sexuality, climate change, and gun control. We will seek especially to analyze and interpret the election of Donald Trump as the nation’s 45th president.
- Instructor: Lane Hall-Witt
- Instructor: Holly Pearson
- Instructor: Sarah Orem
- Instructor: Sarah Orem
- Instructor: Sarah Orem