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AIS 202: Introduction to American Indian Contemporary and Social Issues
Instructor: Stephanie Fryberg
MW 10:30 - 12:20 with Friday sections
Introduction to American Indian/Alaska Natives contemporary and social issues. Topics will include identification, demographics, government relations, treaty and water rights, Indian gaming, and treaty law.
I&S. DIV. 5 credits. This course satisfies an AIS Introductory requirement.
AIS 203: Introduction to Indigenous Knowledges
Instructor: Roger Fernandes
MW 3:30 - 5:20
Introduction to Indigenous peoples’ diverse and complementary ways of knowing in tribally and culturally specific contexts. Topics may include ecological knowledges, artistic knowledges, linguistic knowledges, medicinal knowledges, and Indigenous value systems as expressed in individual and communal contexts. Discussions of Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies. Instruction in contemporary Indigenous research practices.
I&S. 5 credits. This course satisfies an AIS Introductory requirement.
AIS 210: Inconvenient Indians and the "American Problem": American Indian History since 1815
TuTh 11:00 - 12:20 with Friday sections
As part of a two-quarter survey of American Indian history, this course examines the histories of indigenous peoples of North American from the nineteenth century to today. Students will explore a range of topics, including settler colonialism, indigenous power, American Indian - US relations, and Native governance and activism. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 210.
I&S, DIV. 5 credits.
AIS 275: Bringing Back the Wealth: Indigenizing the Campus
Instructor: Cynthia Updegrave
TuTh 3:30 - 5:20
If landscape is memory, and time is living, how might we think about the richness of the environs of the university campus? What can it teach us, and how might we begin to bring back the wealth of the abundant land?
This course is welcoming to all disciplines and backgrounds, and created to engage multiple perspectives in dialogue. wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ, the Intellectual House, is more than a building on campus: it is the living breath of teachings situated within a rich complex of relationships to the land of the campus. The many types of cultural activities now taking place at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ provide us with an opportunity to re-imagine the natural environment of the campus, and frame the restoration of cultural resources in terms of relationships.
I&S. 5 credits. NW credit will be available to all students who contact native@uw.edu.
AIS 340: American Indian Children and Families
Instructor: Dian Million
MW 11:30 - 1:20
Cross-cultural survey of Indian child rearing, family structure, and related social issues. Includes historical changes in family structure, value orientation and adaptation to a bicultural environment, education, child welfare, health problems, and aging.
I&S, DIV. 5 credits.
AIS 379: Powwow: Tradition and Innovation
Instructor: Scott Pinkham
MW 11:30 - 1:20
Explores the historical and cultural roots of powwow. Discusses the ways this indigenous Native art form has adapted since prehistoric times.
I&S/VLPA, DIV. 5 credits.
AIS 441: Gender in Native American Societies
Instructor: Dian Million
MW 2:30 - 4:20
Examines gender roles, identity, and relations in Native American pre- and post-contact societies. Analyzes how contact with European gender customs influenced and altered traditional gender practices, especially in regard to women's social position and the roles of the third/fourth genders in Native American communities.
I&S, DIV. 5 credits.
AIS 443: Indigenous Films, Sovereign Visions
Instructor: Dan Hart
TuTh 2:30 - 4:20
Cultural examination of images of Native people in cinema and popular culture based on social science writings and films by or about Natives in the United States and Canada. Offered: jointly with GWSS 442.
I&S/VLPA, DIV. 5 credits.
AIS 475 B: Decolonizing the Environmental Discourse
Instructor: Jessica Hernandez
MW 10:30 - 12:20
This course examines the concept of environmental justice through a decolonization lens—giving a voice to those who have been silenced in the official environmental discourse. Through guest presentations, group work, facilitated discussions, readings, and inclusive teaching strategies students will examine & explore current and past environmental (in)justice cases. Some of the cases include; the Dakota Access Pipeline, Lummi Coal Terminal, Flint, Michigan, Uranium Mining in Navajo Nation, etc.
I&S. NW available for any student who emails elissaw@uw.edu.
AIS 480: Indigenous Resistance Movements in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
(NOTE: Currently appears in time schedule as AIS 475 but will be changed)
Instructor: Charlotte Cote
TuTh 1:30 - 3:20
This course examines Indigenous resistance and resurgence movements in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. We will explore the political and social contexts in which these movements arose, utilizing the following themes to frame our analysis: colonialism and treaty, land and water rights; political mobilization, activism and cultural resurgence; food sovereignty and sustainable self-determination; the UNDRIP and Indigenous rights; environmental justice and Idle No More; and “Water Is Life” and the NoDAPL movement.
I&S. 5 credits.