Honoring Native Tradition and Community Through Academic Excellence
252. The Native American Experience. (3) (Also offered as Am St 252.) Introductory survey of Native American history, culture and contemporary issues. Students read literature by and about Native Americans covering a variety of topics including tribal sovereignty, federal policy, activism, economic development, education and community life.
342. Native America Post-1940. (3) (Also offered as Hist 348.) Course will address issues that Native Americans have dealt with from World War II to the early 21st century, including termination, urbanization, Red Power, gaming and self-determination.
346. Native America to 1850. (3) (Also offered as Hist 346.) This course will cover American Indian/Alaska Native history to 1850.
347. American Indians Post–1860. (3) (Also offered as Hist 347 and 547.) The course will cover American Indian/Alaska Native history from 1860 to the present.
348. Native American Activism. (3) Inter-disciplinary examination of the histories, strategies, successes, and shortcomings of Native American activist movements. Course focuses on pan-Indian organizations, localized grassroots movements, treaty rights, anti-treaty rights organizations, and inter-nationalist alliances.
385. Indigenous Worldviews. (3)
This course offers an inter-disciplinary academic exploration of perspectives
on Indigenous arts and literature, cultures,education, language,
and language re-vitalization. The environment and the emerging international
legal norm of self- determination for Indigenous peoples are also
examined.
430. Conservation and Indigenous Peoples. (3) (Also offered as Biol 430./530.) Cultural diversity fosters biodiversity. Students work on conservation projects initiated by native ecologist on Southwestern native lands. Short field trips and Fall break field trip.
433. Native American Ecology, Demography and Disease. (3) Relationships between Native ecologies and lifeways, and their impacts on both as a result of contact and colonization are examined. Demographic changes and decimation of Native populations from both disease and biological warfare are also examined.
436. Environmental Ethics and Justice in Native
America. (3) Complex ways in which Native peoples
form relationships with their environment are examined. Differences
and similarities between Native and dominant cultural conceptions
of the environment and environmental justices are considered within
an inter-disciplinary context.
450. Topics in Native American Studies. Topics courses taught by faculty from the University of New Mexico and the surrounding community which vary according to the instructor’s expertise.
466. Native American Southwest. (3) (Also offered as Hist 466.) In this class we will explore the history of Native American groups and their relationships to dominant cultures and nations in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.
477. Archaeology in Native American Studies. (3) Issues of conflict in historical and current archaeological practices and their impacts on Native American traditional culture are examined. The differences between Native culture and science are also examined.
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