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Introduction to Native American Studies is a general survey course designed to acquaint students with traditional and contemporary American Indian cultures. The course will address issues in law, education, health, tribal government, religion and social issues. (3 lect.) DIV
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This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively function in intercultural environments situations, and relationships. Within this process, one focus will be communication between the Native American and Euro- American cultures, although many different cultures will be included in this experience. The theoretical foundations and systematic structure of communication processes will lay the foundation from which intercultural relationships will be examined. Students earning credit in NAAS 1005 may not earn credit in CO/M 1005. (3 lect.) DIV
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3.00 Credits
This course presents topics of historic and contemporary interest which are not usually presented or studied in depth in other courses, including traditional crafts and music, popular images of Indians, and Native American biography. (3 lect.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to address the pertinent issues of American Indian Education in the United States. It includes a comprehensive historical review of traditional American Indian ways of knowing and learning, and the changes in this process brought on by 130 years of U.S. governement policy and regulation. Theories of education, including content (curricula) and processes (ways of learning) will be examined in this context, as well as techniques to be successful teaching in Indian/Non Indian classrooms. Students who receive credit in NAAS 1100 may not receive credit in EDST 1100. (3 lect.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the history of the Wind River Indian Reservation, home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribal Nations. In addition to the historic development of the Wind River Reservation, this course will provide overviews of the traditional (pre-contact) cultures of both tribal groups and follow the significant historical and contemporary events that have led to the cultural changes here in the 21st century. A focus of this course will be towards a clearer understanding of the historical evolution of the relationships between the Eastern Shoshone, the Northern Arapaho, and the Euro-American cultures and how these diverse cultures have managed their social, political, and economic interactions over time. (3 lect.) DIV
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3.00 Credits
Major developments in Indain history since European contact. Concentration will be upon geographical groups, their migrations and relationships to the United States government. Students earning credit in NAAS 2290 may not earn credit in HIST 2290. (3 lect.) DIV
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on topics of significance in contemporary Native American life. Topics range from preservation of traditional values to modern tribal sovereignty. This course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits applicable toward graduation. (1-3 lect.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a broad study of the literature of American Indian peoples. It includes both oral and written traditions, from the pre-Columbian era to the twentieth century. Legends, oratory, songs, poems and stories are the matter of the course. Students earning credit in NAAS 2340 may not earn credit in ENGL 2340. Prerequisites: Completion of ENGL 1010. (3 lect.) HUM
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3.00 Credits
This course is based on the Central Wyoming College campus with a short practicum on, and a tour of, the Wind River Indian Reservation. It will be an historical and contemporary survey of the two tribes of the Wind River Reservation: Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho. (3 lect.)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the student with a substantial overview of the unique legal and political system of governance between the United States federal government and the American Indian tribal nations of this country. To understand this very complex relationship, the student will be provided with the historical development of this body of law from early European contact to the present, in the context of the differing societal structures of the cultures at hand. The role of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court in creating and substaining this "government-to-government" relationship will be highlighted, along with issues of sovereignty, jurisdiction, treaty-making, state-tribal relationships, economic development, self-determination, cultural sustainability, and the United States Constitution. The student will critically apply this knowledge to the discussion and formulation of past, present, and future considerations. (3 lect.) SOC
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