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AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES (L98)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2024
L98 AMCS 227Topics in Native American Culture: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies3.0 Units
Description:In the 2020 U.S. Census, 9.7 million people identified themselves as being of American Indian or Alaska Native descent, a stunning increase from the 5.2 million identified in the 2010 census. Still, Native peoples make up only about 2.9 percent of the population of the United States. These demographic proportions have made it easy to ignore Native America, but American Indian people carry an importance in American culture and society that far outweighs the census numbers. Anyone engaged in law, policy, energy, land management, and state or federal government will inevitably engage the tangle of Indian law and policy. Anyone in the culture industries-film, arts, writing, museums, sports-will confront the curious hold that Native peoples have on American culture. Anyone interested in international issues will confront questions about the histories and practices of conquest and colonialism on a global scale, particularly in other major settler states such as Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Native peoples find a central place in the recent history of social justice uprisings, COVID-19 challenges, and the practices of history, memory, and politics surrounding monuments and memorials. This course offers a broad introductory survey of these and other issues as it explores the development and current state of the interdisciplinary field known as Native American and Indigenous Studies. Who are those 9.7 million people, and how is their status and identity determined? What are the pressing issues of the present moment? What are the histories that make sense of those issues? How do we explain that American urge to claim "Indian blood" and to create novels and films about Native people? How do tribal nations sit within and in relation to state and federal governments? Why should we have an entire academic field devoted to the wide world of Native America? And how might we think of that field as it takes shape at WashU, which sits in a city that began as a French colonial settlement on the Mississippi River in the shared territories of numerous tribes, including the Wazhazhe (Osage), Niúachi (Missouria), Illiniwek (Illinois Confederacy), Myaamia (Miami), O-ga-xpa Ma-zhon (Quapaw), Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), and Ochéthi Sakówi? (Lakota and Dakota).
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L48 227Frequency:None / History
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