The Mohawk language, Kanien'keha, is introduced in culturally specific ways, based on the histories and knowledges of Mohawk people. Through the use of exercises and other interactive processes, supplemented by tests, texts, and online resources, students become familiar with basic concepts and terms related to Mohawk culture and language.
Students may do supervised special study in one or two selected areas. Prerequisites: 48 credits, including at least 12 credits in Indigenous Studies; or, for students with equivalent preparation, permission of the Undergraduate Program Director. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in this 3000-level reading course. The course transaction […]
Students may do supervised special study in one or two selected areas. Prerequisites: 48 credits, including at least 12 credits in Indigenous Studies; or, for students with equivalent preparation, permission of the Undergraduate Program Director. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in this 3000-level reading course. The course transaction […]
This course focuses on forms of indigenous storytelling which underlie indigenous media. It explores indigeneity in popular culture, the history of indigenous broadcasting and broadcast policy in Canada. This course and its complement together trace the arc of indigenous storytelling, from thousands of years ago to the present, as it has evolved through changing regimes […]
The course critically analyzes representations of racial and colonial violence in scholarly and creative literature and media. It also examines how survivors and witnesses contest the effects of racism and colonialism through representation.
The course analyses processes of colonialism, racialization and racism in historical and contemporary examples of the internment and detention of racialized individuals and groups by Canada and other western countries. The internment of Japanese Canadians is examined, as well as contemporary examples of detention, including Guantánamo Bay and other sites. Prerequisites: AP/INDG 1050 6.00.
This course studies the history of Indigenous people in North America from time immemorial to the regular settlement of Europeans in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Using a wide variety of sources it ranges from Meso-America to the High Arctic, and examines theories of the peopling of the continent; hunting, fishing and gathering; and […]
This online course examines African, African Diasporic and Indigenous North American speculative and science fiction as works of art, first and foremost, but also as art that interrogates the sociopolitical, economic, literary, and ecological arrangements that structure African and Indigenous relations in the current global or post-global era, as well as in the context of […]
This online course engages with horror and crime fiction, films, plays, and the graphic novel, as well as the latter’s adaptations to multiplayer online gaming. While detective fiction and the mystery novel have a growing body of recent scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature, the study of the horror genre, as a […]
This course examines similarities and contrasts in contemporary Native writers in Canada and the United States, exploring the many varied interpretations of Native historical experience, definitions of culture and self-determination, and the meaning and implications of "Indian" identities.