Updated 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog
Indigenous Studies Courses
All Indigenous Studies Courses
INST 1107 Introduction to Turtle Island
(3 credits)
INST 1202 Indigenous Environmental Current Events
(3 credits)
INST 2201 Creation to Contact
(3 credits)
INST 2202 Survivance Since Contact
(3 credits)
INST 2207 Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
(3 credits)
INST 2410 Ojibwe Crafts
(2 credits)
INST 2810 Anishinaabe Place Names
(3 credits)
INST 3170 Indigenous Education
(3 credits)
INST 3210 Reclaiming Turtle Island
(3 credits)
INST 3307 Ojibwe History
(3 credits)
INST 3317 Tribal Government and Leadership
(3 credits)
INST 3410 Advanced Ojibwe Crafts
(1-4 credits)
INST 3568 Celebrating Indigenous Art
(3 credits)
INST 3810 Indigenous Research and Theory
(3 credits)
INST 3888 Indigenous Women Writers
(3 credits)
INST 3890 Genealogy and Clan Systems
(3 credits)
INST 4000 Nation Building and Leadership
(3 credits)
INST 4007 Spiritual Lifeways
(3 credits)
INST 4207 Indigenous Philosophy
(3 credits)
INST 4418 Federal Indian Law
(3 credits)
INST 4900 Social Justice
(3 credits)
INST 4908 Indigenous Research and Writing
(3 credits)
INST 4990 Thesis
(3 credits)
INST 4418 Federal Indian Law (3 credits)
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding and awareness of the modern complexities of American Indian federal law and policies regarding diverse tribal nations in the U.S. by exploring readings by experts in the field of Federal Indian Law. The multiple shapes and shaping theories of what constitutes the identity of tribal nations and individual Indians and their recognition, limited recognition or lack of recognition in relationship to federal law and policy will be explored. (Might not be offered every year.)
Common Course Outline