Introduction to Indigenous Studies

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Introduction to the Canadian Indigenous context through a focus on FNMI perspectives of space and place, contact, law, ethnogenesis, colonialism, segregation, integration, languages, aesthetics and diverse historical relations. Resistant interpretations of conventional wisdom with regards to FNMI/colonial relations. This course is especially targeted at students considering a career in any occupation in which they will be interacting with Indigenous peoples, while increasing general understanding of, and sensitivity toward, Canadian Indigenous perspectives.