Overview

Description

COURSE DETAILS:

Global Indigenous Futures lies at the intersection of Indigenous knowledges, futurisms, and resistance to coloniality. Drawing on Indigenous and decolonial perspectives from across the world, we will engage with theories of Indigenous sovereignty, relationality, and world-making to envision pasts, presents, and futures grounded in Indigenous cosmologies and lifeways. Through readings, discussions, and collaborative projects, students will examine how settler colonialism shapes territory, bodies, and resources while exploring how Indigenous peoples reclaim place, autonomy, and joy.

Challenging the notion of a singular, linear future, the course emphasizes resistance, resurgence, and the crucial role of Indigenous youth in shaping plural and more-than-human worlds. Students will complete digital projects that study and visualize how Indigenous peoples center community histories of solidarity, struggles for climate justice, and new forms of belonging. Central to the course is an examination of how memory grounds the envisioning of sovereign futures.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe aspects of Indigenous societies using analytical frameworks from Global Indigenous Studies.
• Examine how Indigenous communities across the world engage with archives, memory, and storytelling as acts of both remembrance and future-making.
• Analyze how transnational Indigenous conversations of resistance, resurgence, and solidarity emerge in response to dispossession and settler colonialism.
• Evaluate ethical questions arising from the homogenized and hegemonic representations of Indigenous communities in global visual and digital media.

Grading

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

All readings will be available on Canvas.

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