Indigenous Textiles in Canada: Tourism, Industry, Identity

3 credits · Undergraduate

The making of textiles by Indigenous peoples serves as a way for communities and individuals to pass on traditional knowledges and ways of knowing from grandparent to parent to child and between community members. However, during industrial development, globalization, and European settlement, Indigenous textile producers adapted to the many changes imposed upon them, altering how they made and used textiles, all the while sustaining cultural traditions. This course explores the practices of making and the uses of textiles as cultural and spiritual objects, as commodities, and as objects of resistance, repatriation, and reconciliation. CROSSLISTED: HIST 3215.03 FORMATS: Lecture | Discussion