SOCIOL 2UU3

INDIGENOUS ONTOLOGIES AND WAYS OF KNOWING

Undergraduate

Fall 2026 · C01

Topics

Introduction to Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration (15 pages)
Notes : Class participation activities (Discussion), 2%
Locating the Histories of Indigenous Peoples in Scholarship
Parker, Arthur C. The Social Elements of the Indian Problem (16 pages).
Smith, “Research Through Imperial Eyes,” from Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (14 pages).
Wilson, Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods (17 pages).
Tuck, Eve. Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities (read pp. 409 – 416).
Notes : Quiz, 2%
The Emergence of Indigenous Theorizing in the Academy
“Ethnoscience and Indian Realities” (chapter 5 in Spirit & Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader, 6 pages)
“Indians, Archaeologists, and the Future” (chapter 6 in Spirit & Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader, 5 pages)

Fall 2025 · Indig Ontologies&Ways Knowing · C01

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