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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.

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 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.

Using Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education, this interdisciplinary course will examine interaction and language in cross-cultural educational situations, including language, literacy and interethnic communication as they relate to Indigenous American classrooms. Special attention will be paid to implications of social, cultural and linguistic diversity for educational practice, along with various strategies for bridging intercultural differences between schools and Native communities.

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