AP/HUMA 4144 3.00

Indigenous Knowledge and Children's Literature in North America

Analyzes and examines Children's Literature and Indigenous Knowledge in North America, focusing on the similarities among diverse traditions of contemporary Indigenous Children's writers in both Canada and in the United States. Explores the many and the varied interpretations of the Indigenous Children and their historical experiences, residential schools, definitions of cultures, childhood self-determination and the meaning and implication of "Indian" identities and their representations in communities and in cities. Issues include on growing up Indigenous, including the experiences of Indigenous Children in Residential, Boarding and Day schools in North America. N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Thomas King, Tomson Highway, Edward Benton-Banai, among others, will be the focus.