Summer 2022 - INDG 201W OL01
Indigenous Peoples' Perspectives on History (3)
Class Number: 2624
Delivery Method: Distance Education
Overview
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An examination of fact and ideology in history and historic events involving contact between Indigenous and European peoples. The course will also address questions of research methodologies in studying Indigenous/European relations, such as the evaluation of oral history and written ethnohistoric sources. An additional focus will be on gender as it influences perspectives. Students with credit for FNST 201W may not take this course for further credit. Writing/Breadth-Social Sci.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
- Develop and value the perspectives that come with one’s position
- Develop the skills of close reading in order to assess a wide variety of sources and genres from autobiography, fiction—including graphic novels, documentary film, journalism, and academic writing.
- Develop research skills to add context to readings, in order to assess how effectively a source includes or values Indigenous perspectives
- Write analysis effectively and persuasively.
- Assess how historical writing, while presented as objective and scientific, has also been driven by political motivations and culturally and socially based assumptions.
- Critically understand the concept of historiography and how historians present and analyze information about events and processes of the past, in particular as it is relevant for understanding the writing of Indigenous peoples' history.
- Be able to assess a spectrum of sources by Indigenous peoples from oral traditions, interview, film to written sources in a variety of genres
- Appreciate the culture-specific ways in which Indigenous elders talk(ed) about their pasts and tell their histories and stories.
- Understand and critically assess current concerns of Indigenous peoples in Canada about having their own representations of their pasts validated by the Canadian political and legal system.
Grading
- Participation 15%
- Written Responses (3 x 15% each) 45%
- Research Paper Proposal 10%
- Research Paper 30%
Materials
MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:
Campbell's Halfbreed can be purchased through Massy Books or Iron Dog Books. All remaining texts will be provided through Canvas or are accessible via SFU Library.
REQUIRED READING:
Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed. (2019 updated edition)
ISBN: 9780771024092
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. (Third edition, 2021) *available online through the SFU Library*
ISBN: 9781786998132
Hill, Gord. 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded, 2021. *first edition (2010) is available online through the SFU Library*
ISBN: 9781551528526
RECOMMENDED READING:
Younging, Gregory. Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples. (2018) available online through the SFU Library
Registrar Notes:
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