Indigenous Language and Land Stewardship

3 credits

This course explores how our languages are intertwined with the environment. Topics include: place names, land-management, medicines, conservation, hunting, fishing, farming practices, and language camps. Stu-dents will explore how languages are deeply connected to the land, fostering an understanding of Indigenous perspectives on stewardship and sustainability. Students will examine how past and current communities have used the land to reclaim language. Students will consider how they can connect the land to language reclamation in their own communities. ***Prerequisite: Any 300-level IRL course.***