Native Peoples of North America: Sustaining Land, Water, Culture, & Community (Online)
This course is an introduction to the Anthropology of Native North America, focusing on Native American communities’ relationships to land and water. The course provides a survey of Native cultures across North America while spotlighting Tribes in Idaho. Learners will read, watch, and discuss content covering varied North American cultures. The course uses a land-based learning approach, centering Native knowledges and voices, to explore human relationships to the more-than-human environment and each other and features in-person and virtual field trips and guest lectures by Native land, water, language, and culture practitioners.
-Class held in Zoom
-1 field trip (in person and/or virtual)
-May need to purchase text book
-No meeting during finals week or thanksgiving weeks