AIS 459

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Topics in American Indian Lit

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Interdisciplinary seminar on special and advanced topics in American Indian and Indigenous Literatures.

Same as ENGL 459. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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AIS 459 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	57639	Lecture-Discussion	1G	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	219 Gregory Hall	Calcaterra, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Stories are Law Section Info: Stories are Law: The Legal Reasonings of Indigenous Literatures This course examines what Indigenous literatures—from creation stories and legal memorials to poems, podcasts, and novels—reveal about Indigenous legal frameworks and ways of ordering the world. Where Euro-American law has long cast Indigenous/Native American people as lawless, this course reveals the historical importance and ongoing significance of Indigenous legal reasoning and forms of governance, law, and order. The course also delves into how Native authors and legal scholars have responded to and analyzed US law. As Heidi Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) puts it, Indigenous writings “dispel the sanctity of law, demonstrating that law is a set of stories.” We will approach law as story and story as law by studying literature from multiple tribal-national contexts and historical time periods. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	57638	Lecture-Discussion	1U	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	219 Gregory Hall	Calcaterra, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Stories are Law Section Info: Stories are Law: The Legal Reasonings of Indigenous Literatures: This course examines what Indigenous literatures—from creation stories and legal memorials to poems, podcasts, and novels—reveal about Indigenous legal frameworks and ways of ordering the world. Where Euro-American law has long cast Indigenous/Native American people as lawless, this course reveals the historical importance and ongoing significance of Indigenous legal reasoning and forms of governance, law, and order. The course also delves into how Native authors and legal scholars have responded to and analyzed US law. As Heidi Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) puts it, Indigenous writings “dispel the sanctity of law, demonstrating that law is a set of stories.” We will approach law as story and story as law by studying literature from multiple tribal-national contexts and historical time periods. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.