AMIN3312

Taking a hemispheric approach, this course focuses on a) American Indian ecologies and their respective Indigenous Knowledge Systems, b) local, regional, and wide-reaching environmental issues and concerns, and c) current and proposed interventions through strategies that include Indigenous and Tribal Nation environmental research, law and policy, human learning and education, and social movements. Geographically, the course begins with an analysis of our location in the Midwestern and Great Lakes region of the United States, home to the Dakota peoples, Oceti Ŝakowiŋ, and Ojibwe Tribal Nations. At the same time, while our research and teaching baseline is mindfulness of local environment and Tribal Sovereignty of U.S. American Indian Tribal Nations, our course also assumes the contiguity, interdependence, and movement of lands, waters, and more than human beings across the hemisphere and with inspiration from theories and frameworks that result from global Indigenous communities and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and educational research.

OPT - Student Option

03457

The Environment

No

Every Spring