printer friendly pageNATIVEAM 109A: Federal Indian Law (CSRE 109A)
Cases, legislation, comparative justice models, and historical and cultural material. The interlocking relationships of tribal, federal, and state governments. Emphasis is on economic development, religious freedom, and environmental justice issues in Indian country.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Biestman, K. (PI)
NATIVEAM 114: Making History/Making Indians: Myths, Stereotypes & Realities
This course examines the ways historians and others have portrayed American Indians, both in canonical works and in various manifestations of popular culture. The time period begins with the Boston Tea Party. We explore a series of events prior to the Revolutionary War period, through the 19th into the 21st century to examine the myths and the reality. The focus is about perceptions of ¿The Indian¿; we will also examine the connection between ¿The Indian¿ and American identity.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Anderson, J. (PI)
NATIVEAM 143A: American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (ENGLISH 43A, ENGLISH 143A)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143A.)Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography,
Black Elk Speaks.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Fields, K. (PI)
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Jimenez, C. (PI)
NATIVEAM 200R: Directed Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Biestman, K. (PI)
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LaFromboise, T. (PI)
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Lusignan, B. (PI)
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Biestman, K. (PI)
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LaFromboise, T. (PI)
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Lusignan, B. (PI)
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Snipp, C. (PI)
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Wilcox, M. (PI)
NATIVEAM 200W: Directed Reading
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Anderson, J. (PI)
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Biestman, K. (PI)
;
LaFromboise, T. (PI)
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Instructors:
Anderson, J. (PI)
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Biestman, K. (PI)
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LaFromboise, T. (PI)
;
Red Shirt, D. (PI)
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Snipp, C. (PI)
;
Wilcox, M. (PI)
NATIVEAM 240: Psychology and American Indian Mental Health (EDUC 340)
Western medicine's definition of health as the absence of sickness, disease, or pathology; Native American cultures' definition of health as the beauty of physical, spiritual, emotional, and social things, and sickness as something out of balance. Topics include: historical trauma; spirituality and healing; cultural identity; values and acculturation; and individual, school, and community-based interventions. Prerequisite: experience working with American Indian communities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
LaFromboise, T. (PI)
NATIVEAM 109B: Indian Country Economic Development (CSRE 109B)
The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century strategies for sustainable economic development and protection of political and cultural sovereignty.
NATIVEAM 138: American Indians in Comparative Historical Perspective (SOC 138, SOC 238)
(Graduate students register for 238.) Demographic, political, and economic processes and events that shaped relations between Euro-Americans and American Indians, 1600-1890. How the intersection of these processes affected the outcome of conflicts between these two groups, and how this conflict was decisive in determining the social position of American Indians in the late 19th century and the evolution of the doctrine of tribal sovereignty.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
NATIVEAM 139: American Indians in Contemporary Society (SOC 139, SOC 239)
(Graduate students register for 239.) The social position of American Indians in contemporary American society, 1890 to the present. The demographic resurgence of American Indians, changes in social and economic status, ethnic identification and political mobilization, and institutions such as tribal governments and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Recommended: 138 or a course in American history.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
NATIVEAM 167: Performing Indigeneity on Global Stage (DANCE 167)
Explores how indigeneity is expressed and embodied through performance on the global stage.
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