ENGL 459

Fall 2025

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10
Topics in American Indian Lit
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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Same as AIS 459. See AIS 459.

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57641
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.
57640
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.
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