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GEOG 410

CRITICAL INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGES

3 credits.

Critical Indigenous Ecological Knowledges are a set of diverse understandings, responsibilities, and laws held by distinct groups of Indigenous peoples that are enacted in multiple ways across socio-political and geographical contexts. These knowledges intersect with Indigenous political sovereignties and longstanding, complex, and nuanced relationships to the more-than-human world. Learn multiple entry points to exploring and examining these knowledge sets in the context of what's for now called the U.S. and Canada to think critically about the politics of Nature, environmentalism, race, indigeneity, and colonialism both historically and in the contemporary moment. Reflect upon how critical Indigenous knowledges about ecology, environment, and government have been erased, co-opted, criminalized, and also continually practiced, reimagined, and revitalized in multiple spheres through a range of interdisciplinary, critical, and cutting-edge Native scholarships and writings.

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Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain understandings of the diversity of Ecological Thought among Native peoples across the U.S. and Canada. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Gain understanding of the intersections between Critical Indigenous Ecological Knowledges and Indigenous Sovereignty. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify forces of colonialism that have negatively shaped access to and continuation of Ecological Knowledges in Native communities both historically and in ongoing forms. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify and gain understanding of the ongoing practices of Indigenous Ecological Knowledges that have persisted against colonialism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify and gain understanding of practices of revitalization that Native peoples practice to reestablish and reimagine relationships with their knowledges, languages, and lands Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Engage and demonstrate knowledge with the latest and most cutting edge literature in the discipline of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Audience: Graduate 7. Gain an ability to analyze and synthesize the political, philosophical, and analytical import of Native American and Indigenous Studies, especially in the context relating to Critical Indigenous Ecological Knowledges. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain understandings of the diversity of Ecological Thought among Native peoples across the U.S. and Canada. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Gain understanding of the intersections between Critical Indigenous Ecological Knowledges and Indigenous Sovereignty. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify forces of colonialism that have negatively shaped access to and continuation of Ecological Knowledges in Native communities both historically and in ongoing forms. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify and gain understanding of the ongoing practices of Indigenous Ecological Knowledges that have persisted against colonialism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify and gain understanding of practices of revitalization that Native peoples practice to reestablish and reimagine relationships with their knowledges, languages, and lands Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Engage and demonstrate knowledge with the latest and most cutting edge literature in the discipline of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Audience: Graduate 7. Gain an ability to analyze and synthesize the political, philosophical, and analytical import of Native American and Indigenous Studies, especially in the context relating to Critical Indigenous Ecological Knowledges. Audience: Graduate

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