AIS 285

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Indigenous Thinkers

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Credit: 3 hours.

An introduction to the English-language traditions of indigenous intellectuals. Specific topics vary.

May be repeated in the same term, to a maximum of 6 hours, or in separate terms, to a maximum of 9 hours, if topics vary.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Non-West

Humanities – Hist & Phil

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AIS 285 class schedule data for fall 2025
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
55861	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	333 Armory	Rand, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course. Section Info: “This course will focus on Native food systems, gardens, and sovereignty”
72099	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	1043 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg	Calcaterra, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course examines the writings of five North American Indigenous (Native) intellectuals of the nineteenth century: William Apess (Pequot), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwe), Charles Alexander Eastman/Ohiyesa (Santee Dakota), Zitkala-Sa/Gertrude Bonnin (Yankton Dakota), and Simon Pokagon (Potawatomi). During a period when the United States relentlessly expulsed Indigenous nations from their lands, contained Indigenous communities on reservations with military force, enrolled Native children into compulsory boarding schools, and attempted to eradicate Indigenous politics and culture, these authors insisted upon the validity of Native thought, languages, political orders, spiritual beliefs, and literary traditions. We will study these Indigenous thinkers’ interventions into settler colonial logics and practices during this era of intense US colonialism and consider how these authors drew upon long-standing Indigenous intellectual traditions to imagine Indigenous futures.
64862	Lecture-Discussion	C	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	321 Gregory Hall	Maldonado, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course will discuss issues related to Indigenous sovereignty from an Indigenous hemispheric perspective, especially the critical and historical aspects of contemporary Indigenous intellectual projects, struggles, and demands. This course reflects aspects of Indigenous movements, human rights, and racial formations across the hemisphere (Turtle Island and Abiayala).