Indigenous Resurgence: Roots, Reclamations, and Relations

This interdisciplinary survey course in Native American and Indigenous Studies will prepare students to identify, contextualize, and complicate contemporary Indigenous movements for justice. Three organizing sections of readings and writing assignments: roots, reclamations, and relations, make up the thematic trajectory of the course. Students will think through Indigenous projects to recover lost knowledges and ways of being (roots), reclaim self-determination from settler institutions (reclamations), and reorient social movements in solidarity with other struggles for justice (relations).