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10S: 10A This course will examine the roles of tribal governments in the formation of internal and external policies affecting the lives of Native American people, the basis for their political power historically and in contemporary society, and their structure and functions. Particularly, the course will focus on the cultural and legal dilemmas posed by tribal governments: how they maintain cultural legitimacy in the face of colonial cultural imposition, how they articulate retained rights in a system of shared sovereignty, and the problems Native Americans face in building stronger political systems as they struggle to maintain and retain sovereignty. Open to all students. Duthu.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This language course is intended to introduce beginning students to the fundamentals of the various families of Indian languages of North America. This panoramic course may serve as an introduction to the study of a specific Indian language, to the study of the relationship between language and culture, or to the study of linguistics itself. In addition it will provide a general description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantic domains, and grammar of Indian languages. Each student will choose one out of twelve grammatical sketches of particular Indian languages for closer analysis. Furthermore, we shall examine the history of the study of Indian languages and their classification by family, the dynamics of linguistic contact, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and the issues of language extinction and preservation. Open to all students. Dist: SOC; WCult: NW. Runnels.
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09W: 2A 10W: 10A The Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz once noted that "because of the insistence to keep telling and creating stories, Indian life continues, and it is this resistance against loss that has made life possible." The regenerative and re-affirming force of tribal stories has been most severely tested when confronted by the overwhelming and often destructive power of Federal law in Indian affairs. The complex matrix of legal and political relations between Indian tribes and the Federal government thus serves as singularly important arena to examine contested notions of national identity, sovereignty, relationships to lands and people, and concepts of justice. Students will read literary texts produced by Native authors and legal texts involving Indian tribes in an effort to understand how the Native production of stories contributes to the persistence of tribalism in contemporary Native America.Open to Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Duthu, Goeman (09W), Duthu (10W).
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08F: 10A We will address issues of gender in indigenous communities as it relates to culture, policy, history, and social life. Indigenous in the context of this class will focus on the diversity of Native people within/across settler-colonial nation-states. The project based assignments will tackle common misperceptions, the complexity of changing gender patterns, the methods Native communities develop to balance out gender inequities, and various organizing of Native women's activism. The aim of this class is to create an understanding of how gender issues are a vital component in the process of decolonization Open to all students. Dist: SOC; WCult: CI. Goeman.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S
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09S, 10S: 12 This course surveys some of the prominent voices in American Indian intellectual culture from the 1960s to the present. The course will examine four "kinds" of American Indian intellectuals in order to make better sense of what an American Indian intellectual is, and more importantly, what does it mean to be part of an American Indian "intellectual culture" The course will explore the work of tribal leaders, American Indian scholars, artists and writers, and Native womeOpen to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Dist: TMV; WCult: NW. Turner.
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09S, 10S: 10 As Muscogee poet, Joy Harjo, expresses in the introduction of the anthology, "Reinventing the Enemy's Language", Native peoples are "...still dealing with a holocaust of outrageous proportion in these lands...Many of us at the end of the century are using the 'enemy's language' with which to tell our truths, to sing, to remember ourselves during these troubled times." This course examines the ways contemporary American Indian poets employ literary gestures of resistance to the ongoing effects of colonization, and how their poetry contributes to the survival of tribal memory and the regeneration of tribal traditions and communities. We examine the influence of oral tradition and ritual life upon contemporary poets, as well as the position Native American poetic "voice" occupies in contemporary postcolonial diOpen to all classes. Palmer.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S With their complex social organization, elaborate ceremonies, fascinating mythology, and flamboyant "art," the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast represent a truly unique "culture area" of Native North America. The course surveys several cultures of this region (from the coast of Oregon to southeastern Alaska), drawing upon early travelers' accounts, anthropological works, native testimony, artifacts from the Hood Museum of Art, and films. Lectures, class discussions, and student presentations will deal with the "classic" Northwest Coast cultures of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries as well as their modern versions. Open to all cl asses. Dist: SOC; WCul t: NW.
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3.00 Credits
09S: 10A This course will focus on the constitutional, statutory and jurisprudential rules of law that make up the field of Federal Indian Law. Attention will be given to the historical framework from which the rules were derived. After tracing the development of the underlying legal doctrines that are prominent today, the course will turn to a consideration of subject-specified areas of Indian law, including hunting and fishing rights, water rights, and preservation of religious and cultural rights. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Dist: SOC; WCult: NW. Duthu.
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3.00 Credits
08F: 2A This course will explore a variety of approaches to studying environmental issues in Indian Country (in both the United States and Canada). While a number of academic disciplines will be investigated over the semester, students should form a synthetic understanding of the issues scholars face when taking on "Indian" and "environmental" issues in their studies. We will focus on three key issues: (1) The impact of the 'invented' Indian on understandings of Indigenous environmental practices, (2) The differences between Native and non-Native approaches to Indigenous environmental knowledge; (3) Resistances to colonialism and the maintenance of Indigenous knowledge within contemporary political and legal conteOpen to all classes. Dist: SOC; WCult: NW. Ranco.
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