Indigenous Epistemologies

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

In this course we will visit with Indigenous and anticolonial approaches to epistemology and knowledge systems. Key threshold concepts we will encounter include: structural epistemology, land-based epistemologies, ontological pluralism, multiple world models of knowing, epistemic sovereignty, incommensurability, Indigenous research methodologies, and epistemicide. Thinkers we will read include: VF Cordova, Dian Million, Gerald Vizenor, Kyle Powys Whyte, Kristie Dotson, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Kathleen Absolon, and Vanessa Watts.