Spring 2025 - INDG 353W D100
Indigenous Heritage Stewardship (3)
Class Number: 3171
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Eldon Yellowhorn
ecy@sfu.ca
1 778 782-6669
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Prerequisites:
45 units or permission of the instructor.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Examines issues that arise when Indigenous people must balance economic development and cultural integrity. Topics include self-reflexive internalist research, ethics and best practices in representing Indigenous heritage, public laws and land claim agreements affecting heritage, the exhumation and repatriation of human remains and religious freedom and access to sacred sites and objects. Students who have taken INDG (or FNST) 322 previously under this topic may not take this course for further credit. Students with credit for FNST 353W may not take this course for further credit. Writing.
COURSE DETAILS:
INDG 353W Indigenous Heritage Stewardship introduces student to the issues that Indigenous Peoples encounter as they assert their right to manage their heritage within a colonial reality. Course content examines the tenets of internalist archaeology as a conceptual framework for imagining the past in the aboriginal world. Topics to be covered include aboriginal thought on archaeological methods and theory, the exhumation, public display and repatriation of human remains and sacred objects, and archaeology in the context of land claims. Indigenous heritage stewardship stands at the focal point of competing interests that include public media and private landowners, various levels of government, developers, and industry. Aboriginal people define their rights through the courts and attempt to exert influence on policy and practice by negotiating agreements with government over customary lands or joint management arrangements. Outside these venues, Indigenous Peoples advocate rescuing cultural property and human remains that were taken from them in earlier years. They rely on public opinion and positive media representation to advance their causes. Moreover, there is an evolving bundle of legislation that compels public institutions to co-operate with them and accept claims from museum and public institutions.
Grading
- Writing Assignment 1 15%
- Writing Assignment 2 15%
- Writing Assignment 3 15%
- Midterm Exam 20%
- Research Report 25%
- Presentation 10%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Yellowhorn & Hickok () Union of BC Indian Chiefs
First Nations Heritage Conservation Action Plan (2012)
First Nations Heritage Planning Toolkit (2013)
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
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RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION
Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.