AIS 502

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Indigenous Decolonial Methods

Credit: 4 hours.

Introduction for graduate students to key critical scholars and prevailing and emerging models in research methods that seek ethical knowledge production in American Indian and/or Indigenous Studies, including ethnography, archival research, interviews, and translation (to name only some of the myriad options). Focus is on assisting students to initiate, develop, clarify, and justify the research methods they adopt and practice to reach their research goals.

Prerequisite: AIS 501 or consent of the instructor.

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AIS 502 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62617	Lecture-Discussion	A	4:00PM -5:50PM	T	325 Gregory Hall	Warrior, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Methods and methodologies have arisen as fundamental issues in critical Indigenous studies, especially for those who have taken embraced a transindigenous, global agenda and approach to their work. The purpose of this seminar is to read some of the most recent work to address methods and methodology, including books and articles by Chad Allen, Kim TallBear, Maggie Walter, Philip Deloria, Glen Coulthard, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Audra Simpson, and Jean O?Brien. An alternative Indigenous tradition of Indigenous anti-method will also be considered through the work of Vine Deloria and others. Students will be responsible for 25 pages of research-based writing, either in one paper due at the end of the semester or up to three shorter papers due across the semester.