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This course aims to provide students with an opportunity to share experiences and cultivate new ideas through a decolonized lens. Class discussions will be organized around three major themes: Body, Mind, Spirit ¿ with the intention to explore shared values while recognizing and admiring the intersections between. Each week we will focus on topics such as language, storytelling, Native representation and activism, peacemaking, Indigenous spirituality and sexuality, and ancestral technologies. People from all backgrounds and communities are welcome.

Indigenous Ecological Knowledge refers to the Indigenous knowledge related to human beliefs, practices and experiences embedded in specific locations. There are multiple versions of such knowledge based on the unique relationships of individual communities with a focus on California Native Communities (Specifically the Muwekma Ohlone tribe). We will explore environmental justice movements, sacred lands and medicines, climate change adaptation, resiliency, the effects of colonization on Indigenous food systems and ecological restoration. We will examine the ways in which Native Peoples responded and adapted to settler colonialism, dispossession, cultural genocide, and the rise of the ¿Ranchosphere¿ in California. We will foreground the voices of Indigenous scholars and scientists. This course will allow students interested in working with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe to engage in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) through (CEL) Community Engaged Learning. This CARDINAL COURSE draws from the knowledge and support provided by The HAAS Center. NOTE: Native Am 112 can be taken for up to 3 units and is not repeatable. Native Am 12 is a repeatable project-based lab that can be taken for 1-2 units. No more than 5 units of Native Am 12/112 can be counted toward the NAS major.

This course provides students with an introductory grasp on major concepts, theoretical highlights, and important figures in Native American and Indigenous Studies, also known as American Indian Studies or First Nations Studies. The discipline emerged in the United States during the late 1960s when Native student-activists demanded the inclusion of their histories alongside the dominant white settler narratives in universities¿ educational catalog. By examining historical and legal documents, storytelling accounts, images, films, and literary works, students will explore a diverse range of themes and perspectives, gaining an understanding of Native American cultures, histories, and contemporary lifeworlds. The course emphasizes materials from relevant sources produced by and about Natives to foster critical thinking and analysis. It also aims to cultivate an appreciation for the richness and complexity of Native American experiences while introducing major concepts, theoretical highlights, and important figures in the field of Native American Studies. Throughout the course, students will explore the global development of the discipline from a pan-Indian perspective, discussing keywords, histories, politics, disciplinary concerns, and the recent "decolonial turn" within academia. By the end of the course, students will have an introductory understanding of key disciplinary jargon, methodological research, and constitutive issues in Native American Studies.

Seminar examines Indigenous feminist theories and praxis, transnational Native feminisms in the United States, diversity of tribal traditions and gender roles, kinship, change and continuity under cycles of settler colonialism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and feminist work for human rights in Indigenous communities today in the U.S. and globally. Sources include history, ethnography, biography, autobiography, the novel & film.

Indigenous Ecological Knowledge refers to the Indigenous knowledge related to human beliefs, practices and experiences embedded in specific locations. There are multiple versions of such knowledge based on the unique relationships of individual communities with a focus on California Native Communities (Specifically the Muwekma Ohlone tribe). We will explore environmental justice movements, sacred lands and medicines, climate change adaptation, resiliency, the effects of colonization on Indigenous food systems and ecological restoration. We will examine the ways in which Native Peoples responded and adapted to settler colonialism, dispossession, cultural genocide, and the rise of the "Ranchosphere" in California. We will foreground the voices of Indigenous scholars and scientists. This course will allow students interested in working with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe to engage in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) through (CEL) Community Engaged Learning. This CARDINAL COURSE draws from the knowledge and support provided by The HAAS Center. NOTE: Native Am 112 can be taken for up to 3 units and is not repeatable. Native Am 12 is a repeatable project-based lab that can be taken for 1-2 units. No more than 5 units of Native Am 12/112 can be counted toward the NAS major.

This course will look at notable Native American Women in Native American history starting with Native American oral tradition narratives about important women in specific tribal narratives including origin narratives used in Native American tribal history. Native American history is not required in any national curriculum and as a result, Native American people(s) encounter many stereotypes and false beliefs about indigenous peoples of the United States. This course will focus on the role of women in Native American history including historic narratives in oral tradition as maintained in specific Native American histories (as told from a Native American perspective).