| source University of Washington (X) |
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department American Indian Studies (X) |
Explores basic issues of American Indian Studies including theories about American Indian origins and demography; the impact of European disease and colonialism, the formation of American Indian stereotypes, the resistance of native peoples to racism and oppression, and the treaty status and continuing challenges for Indian nations. Introduces American Indian Studies faculty and their research and teaching specialties.
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Utilizes historical and contemporary sources to survey the music and music-related traditions of Native North America. Examines traditional music and context from the Northwest Coast, Arctic, Southwest, Great Basin, Plains, Plateau, California, and Eastern Woodlands music-style areas, as well as contemporary neo-traditional and popular genres of American Indian music.
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Major American Indian art traditions of North America. Precontact and early-contact-era traditions and the evolution of Indian art forms in contemporary times. Design and techniques in Indian art.
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Survey of contemporary Native-American people, cultures, and issues. Focus on modern experiences through readings from Native-American autobiographies, contemporary narratives and literature, and reports of important topical issues, e.g., water rights, Indian gaming, treaty law.
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Social constructions of reality, aesthetic as well as philosophic, as conceptualized by approximately five traditional American Indian cultures from different regions of North America.
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Indian women in the social structure; historical and contemporary roles; changes in male-female relationships; problems and opportunities of contemporary women; the feminist movement and Indian rights.
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Examines indigenous societies on the Pacific Northwest's western slope, from southeast Alaska to California, including social structures and relations, subsistence strategies, belief systems, and changes over time, both before and after non-Natives' arrival.
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Examines societies of the Columbia and Fraser River Plateau and Great Basin, including social structures and relations, subsistence strategies, belief systems, and changes over time, both before and after non-Natives' arrival.
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Examines indigenous societies of North America's southeastern sector, including social structures and relations, subsistence strategies, belief systems, and changes over time, both before and after non-Natives' arrival.
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Cross-cultural survey of Indian child rearing, family structure, and related social issues. Includes historical changes in family structure, value orientation and adaptation to a bicultural environment, education, child welfare, health problems, and aging.
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Historiography, sociology, biography, autobiography, and fiction about native women in the United States and Canada. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 341. Offered: AWSpS.
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Literature and poetry of the Pacific Northwest (Coast and Plateau) Native peoples. Contemporary literature and discussion of social and cultural issues raised by American Indian writers and writing. Offered: AW.
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Explores the historical and cultural roots of powwow. Discusses the ways this Indigenous Native art form has adapted since prehistoric times. Includes planning and staging of the annual UW First Nations Powwow.
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Traditional and European-introduced methods of schooling, the federal role in Indian education, and contemporary Indian education issues. Special attention to Indian concepts of learning; boarding school education; the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; current trends in bilingual and bicultural education for Indians.
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Seminar based on social science writings and biographies written by and about incarcerated natives and "deviance" in Native communities in the United States and Canada. Prerequisite: AIS 330; WOMEN 200; WOMEN 310. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 444.
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Performance of various American Indian social dances, songs, and games. In-depth study of various American Indian vocal styles.
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Critical issues in American Indian Studies. Topics vary. Offered: Sp.
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Delineation and analysis of a specific problem or related problems in American Indian Studies. Offered occasionally by visitors or resident faculty.
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Current research and readings in American Indian Studies content areas.
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Intensive research and presentation on a selected issue. For students majoring in American Indian Studies or other advanced students by permission. Offered: AWSp.
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Readings and/or research under faculty supervision.
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Seminar exploring theoretical, methodological, and aesthetic issues when researching documentary film and video projects in Native American communities. Utilizes readings, screening, discussions, and a major research project to explore issues of documentary representation, ethics, and historiography. First part of a two-quarter documentary production sequence. Offered: AWSpS.
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Explores documentary theory and practice, utilizing readings and documentary filmmaking exercises. Students create short documentary sequences while investigating traditional and more experimental ideas about the non-fiction form; theories of representation, subject ethics, documentary authenticity, the intersection of fiction and non-fiction forms, documentary and performance, documentary and historiography.
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Offered by visitors or resident faculty as a one-time, in-depth study of special interest.
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