Fall 2021 - INDG 353W D100
Indigenous Heritage Stewardship (3)
Class Number: 3908
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 8 – Dec 7, 2021: Mon, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 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 Aboriginal 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:
FNST 353W First Nations Heritage Stewardship introduces student to the issues that First Nations 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. First Nations 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, Indian bands 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
- Reading Reviews (4x15%) 60%
- Midterm Exam 10%
- Oral Report 10%
- Research Report 20%
NOTES:
Week by week list of topics to be discussed:
September 14 -- First Nations Heritage Stewardship: Introduction to class
September 21 -- Examining the intellectual foundation of heritage stewardship and some guiding principles of ethical research; statements of ethics as living documents.
September 28 -- Aboriginal community economic development, equitable urbanism and First Nations tourism
Reading 1
October 5 -- Enabling legislation for heritage stewardship, lands reserved for Indians and Cultural Property; First Nations Heritage Management in the context of land claims; the Nisga’a and Twawassen agreements; First Nations Heritage Management Case Studies
Reading 2
October 19 -- Researching human remains; Repatriation, Restorative Justice and Religious Freedoms
Reading 3
October 26 -- Aboriginal Museology, virtual museums; recreating the dialogue between museums and first nations; telling the story from an internalist perspective
Reading 4
November 2 -- UNESCO, World Heritage Sites and International development and Heritage Stewardship; Heritage sites and indigenous culture
November 9 -- Decolonizing First Nations heritage sites versus anti-colonial research
-- Resources versus cultural property; proprietary interest and perspectives of antiquities
November 16 – Reconsidering Canada’s national mythos about heritage, national parks and historic sites
November 23 -- Late Term Exam; Guest speaker
November 30 -- Oral reports
December 7 -- Course evaluations and Oral reports
Registrar Notes:
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TEACHING AT SFU IN FALL 2021
Teaching at SFU in fall 2021 will involve primarily in-person instruction, with approximately 70 to 80 per cent of classes in person/on campus, with safety plans in place. Whether your course will be in-person or through remote methods will be clearly identified in the schedule of classes. You will also know at enrollment whether remote course components will be “live” (synchronous) or at your own pace (asynchronous).
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