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NATIVEAM 112: Muwekma Community Engaged Learning, Cultural Heritage and Native Plants Garden Field Project (ARCHLGY 112A)

This course will allow students interested in working with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe to engaged in community based participatory research. More specifically students will be creating tending and maintaining a native plants garden in the area surrounding the dish. Students will be required to learn about the biotic community and plants used by California native people in a demonstration and educational garden. Course discussions include food sovereignty in indigenous communities, tribal land trusts, and working with indigenous and native communities as a form of field based learning, and service learning. Course will emphasize protocols and specific methods in Indigenous spaces. Cultural heritage and archaeological surveys and mapping may be a a part of this course, depending upon the needs of the Muwekma community. Workdays will be scheduled Saturdays from 10:00 to 12:30 pm. Other projects may include educational projects for k-12 students, in as well as field trips to archaeological sites in ancestral spaces within the territory of Muwekma Ohlone. Other projects to be determined by local tribal members.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 2-3 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 6 units total)
Instructors: ; Wilcox, M. (PI)

NATIVEAM 115: Introduction to Native American History (AMSTUD 115A)

This course incorporates a Native American perspective in the assigned readings and is an introduction to Native American History from contact with Europeans to the present. History, from a Western perspective, is secular and objectively evaluative whereas for most Indigenous peoples, history is a moral endeavor (Walker, Lakota Society 113). A focus in the course is the civil rights era in American history when Native American protest movements were active. Colonization and decolonization, as they historically occurred are an emphasis throughout the course using texts written from the perspective of the colonized at the end of the 20th century in addition to the main text. Students will be encouraged to critically explore issues of interest through two short papers and one longer paper that is summarized in a 15-20 minute presentation on a topic of interest relating to the course.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
Instructors: ; Red Shirt, D. (PI)

NATIVEAM 119: Native American Creative Writing

This class will serve a twofold function. It will introduce students to a basic, aesthetic understanding of the short story form. This will involve weekly reading of masterful examples of the form, in-depth discussion of the stories and how they work, and workshop critiques of student work. Over the course of the quarter we will also consider the place of Native fiction within the larger tradition, and how it works, the ways it is the similar and the ways it might be different, and of course how different Native writers have dealt with the set of problems specific to them both as citizens of tribal nations and as artists who must consider and respond to the pressures and expectations typical to colonized peoples. By the close of the course students will have gained a foundational vocabulary and aesthetic perspective that will allow them to reflect on the short story form, and move forward as writer should they feel so inclined. Note: While this course will at times take a POV that allows for discussions particular to Native peoples, it is not an explicitly political course. This class will greatly benefit anyone who wants to begin their training in the discipline of fiction. Note: Students will not be allowed to join this class after the first week of the quarter
Terms: Win | Units: 5

NATIVEAM 124: Pueblo Revolt

The pueblo revolt of 1680 is recognized as the most successful indigenous rebellion in the New World. The revolt demonstrates a powerful counter narrative to the official histories of colonial America. In this course, we discuss and interrogate the four pillars of settler colonial "terminal narratives"- disease and demographic collapse, military conquest, missionization and acculturation. We will explore the philosophical and legal justifications for Spanish colonization, the use of and impact of colonial violence against Native Peoples and the ways in which the collective experience of colonial violence helped motivate a powerful social movement among Native Peoples. We discuss the historiography of the southwest, the role of anthropology and archaeology in perpetuating the mythology of conquest and the formation of collective identity and community in New Mexico using primary historical texts and archaeological evidence
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: ; Wilcox, M. (PI)
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