Indigenous Storytelling Traditions

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Examines the powerful role of storytelling to pass knowledge across generations for community well-being and prosperity. Explores the chronicles of important events, experiences, and instructions that have been carefully packaged in stories by Indigenous people over multiple centuries. Engages students in deconstructing stereotypical understandings of the Indigenous storytelling and in recognizing diverse Indigenous ways of sharing a story such as song, dance, crafts, and talking circles.