INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATORS

AMERIND/GEOG 410

Critical Indigenous Ecological Knowledges are a set of diverse understandings, responsibilities, and laws held by distinct groups of Indigenous peoples that are enacted in multiple ways across socio-political and geographical contexts. These knowledges intersect with Indigenous political sovereignties and longstanding, complex, and nuanced relationships to the more-than-human world. Learn multiple entry points to exploring and examining these knowledge sets in the context of what's for now called the U.S. and Canada to think critically about the politics of Nature, environmentalism, race, indigeneity, and colonialism both historically and in the contemporary moment. Reflect upon how critical Indigenous knowledges about ecology, environment, and government have been erased, co-opted, criminalized, and also continually practiced, reimagined, and revitalized in multiple spheres through a range of interdisciplinary, critical, and cutting-edge Native scholarships and writings.

AMERIND/ENVIRST/GEOG 345

Surveys the concepts, practices, and issues associated with caring for nature in American Indian communities.

AMERIND/LANDARC 106

In collaboration with Tribal partners in Wisconsin, emphasize environmental science rooted in land stewardship and land management aligned with cultural values and Indigenous science processes. Experience the culture and ecology of a place while engaging in ecological restoration and stewardship, reflecting on relationships to the land and as global citizens. The intersection of Indigenous knowledge and Western science helps explain the need for a diversity of perspectives to respond to social and environmental justice in our changing world.

AMERIND/ENVIRST 306

Indigenous peoples often have very close relationships to ancestral homelands, species and natural resources. However, definitions of "indigenous" can be controversial and highly politicized. Diverse outlooks on identities, worldviews and environmental governance clarify the complex meanings of indigeneity in the US. Highlights American Indian perspectives, conservation practices, and policy environments through consideration of US and international case studies. American Indian experiences shed light on pressing issues of resource sustainability and sovereignty, and demonstrate linkages to global Indigenous environmental issues and strategies.

AMERIND 230

Examines historic and contemporary forms of Indigenous resistance including grassroots organizing, treaty rights, language revitalization, art and media, and environmental justice from Indigenous perspectives in North America and the Pacific.