Native American Studies: NAS 52

NAS 52

Contemporary Native American Environmental Issues (Identical to Environmental Studies 80)

08W: 10A

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 examined over the term, students should form a synthetic understanding of the issues scholars face when taking on "Indian" and "environmental" issues together in their studies. Some key areas we will explore include: (1) The impact of the 'invented' Indian on understandings of Indigenous environmental practices; (2) The differences betweer Native and non-Native approaches to Indigenous environmental knowledge; and (3) Resistances to colonialism and the maintenance of Indigenous knowledge within contemporary political and legal contexts.

Open to all classes. Dist: SOC; WCult: NW. Ranco.

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