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Berkeley - Native American Studies Reading and Composition

This course introduces students to the genres of Native American literature (written and oral traditions), provides historical and cultural frameworks for understanding, appreciating, and interpreting Native American writings, and develops basic skills in expository and creative writing. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Berkeley - Native American Studies Reading and Composition

Course examines Native American written and oral traditions in historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis on literary interpretation and creative and analytical writing, so that students increasingly write from positions of strength. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Berkeley - Introduction to Native American Studies

This course explores the interactions, from friendship treaties and land deals to contemporary American governmental policies, between America's original inhabitants with Europeans and Euro-Americans. Emphasis will be placed on how tribal peoples continue to react to the national myths and policies created by Europeans and Euro-Americans.
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Berkeley - Introduction to Native American Studies II: Cultural Practice, Art, and Identity

This course explores Native American identify practices in written and oral traditions in literature, art, dance, theatre, ceremony, and song. The place of these traditions in the contemporary day will be emphasized as creative struggles for maintaining and elaborating on Indian identity in the context of colonialism.
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Berkeley - Freshman/Sophomore Seminar

Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Berkeley - Native Americans in North America to 1900

An ethnohistorical analysis of America's original inhabitants and their interactions with Europeans and Euro-Americans emphasizing an Indian perspective.
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Berkeley - Native Americans in the 20th Century

A survey and analysis of issues affecting Native Americans in the 20th century. Course will explore political, economic, and social/cultural developments as they shape federal-Indian relations and tribal sovereignty.
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Berkeley - Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality

This course examines the history of indigenous, aboriginal, native, or "tribal" peoples over the last five centuries. Particular attention is paid to how these groups were brought into relations with an expanding Europe, capitalist development, and modern nation-states. How have these peoples survived, what are the contemporary challenges they face, and what resources and allies have they drawn on in the present? Also listed as Ethnic Studies C73AC.
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Berkeley - Freshman Seminar--Myth, Memory and History

The course will introduce students to different ways of understanding the history of American Indians and to basic resources and research methods for studying the history of Indian tribes.
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Berkeley - Native American Law

Historical background of the unique relationship between the United States government and Native American tribes, and examination of contemporary legislation, court cases, and federal, state, and local policies affecting Native American social, political, legal, and economic situations.
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Berkeley - Native American Tribal Governments

The roles of tribal governments in the formation of internal and external policies affecting the lives of Native American people, the basis for their political power historically and in contemporary society, and their structure and functions.
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Berkeley - Critical Native American Legal and Policy Studies

Key contemporary issues in the critical study of tribal and federal policy pertaining to American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. Topics include political and cultural sovereignty; religious, gendered, sexual, racial, and other tribal minorities, and civil rights within tribes; Native legal identity and tribal enrollment; the role of violence against women in the history of colonialism, and the struggle for justice and healing; and the movement for traditional or other culturally appropriate forms for tribal self-governance.
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Berkeley - Native American Economic Development

Analysis of impact of U.S. economic policies on tribal lands and resources. Examination of the effect of federal legislation, Bureau of Indian Affairs regulations, and corporate interests on tribal economic life. Consideration of alternative strategies of development.
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Berkeley - Theories and Methods in Native American Studies

Overview of literary theory and criticism, historiography, and social sciences theories and methods useful in the study of Native American literature, history and contemporary tribal groups. Course will develop skills of information gathering and development of theories that structure information.
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Berkeley - Topics in Native American Arts

This course explores the practice of Native American art forms from the perspective of Native American Artists and scholars. Focused on specific art forms such as dance, music, film, crafts, and other traditions, this course provides a critique of conventional understandings of the relationships of Native American cultural traditions and their place in the world of "art."
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Berkeley - Photography and the American Indian: Manifest Destiny, American Frontier, and Images of American Indians

This course explores the development of photography, historical photographs of Indigenous peoples, Black Indians, and the push to win the American West. Central to the course are research methods that deconstruct stereotypical representations of Native Americans, African Americans (who either married into Native nations, were owned by Native peoples, or who joined the military to fight Native peoples), and the theories and methods that influenced photography.
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Berkeley - Making History/Making "Indians"

This course explores the ways in which an invented, generic "Indian" has played a variety of roles in master narratives of United States history. We shall examine changes in images of key figures and events constituting "our" collective historical memory.
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Berkeley - Gender in Native American Society

This course examines gender roles from the period before the invasion to the present. An emphasis will be placed on the ways in which contact with European gender practices transformed those prevalent in Native North American before the conquest.
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Berkeley - Native American Philosophy

A study of the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of Native American world views, with emphasis on systems of knowledge, explanations of natural phenomena, and relations of human beings to nature through ritual and ceremonial observances.
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Berkeley - Survey of Native American Tribal Government

Analysis of the development of tribal government and policy including political institutions, the tribal society, inter-tribal alliances, and effects of European contact.
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Berkeley - Native American Literature

An analysis of the written and oral tradition developed by Native Americans. Emphasis will be placed on a multifaceted approach (aesthetic, linguistic, psychological, historical, and cultural) in examining American Indian literature. Also listed as American Studies C152.
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Berkeley - Native American Medicine

Theories of health and illness, and curing practices, including herbal medicines, ceremonies, and physical techniques, among Native American groups in North and South America.
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Berkeley - Native Americans and the Cinema

This course will analyze the sociological, psychological, and literary aspects of Hollywood moviemakers' stereotyping of the American Indian through the history of film. The format will include representative Indian films, lectures, and guest speakers from the movie industry.
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Berkeley - History of Native Americans in California

History of the Native Americans of California with emphasis on the lifeways, mores, warfare, and relations with the United States government. Attention will be given to the background and evolution of acculturation up to the present.
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Berkeley - History of Native Americans in the Southwest

An historical analysis of the Native American Nations of the southwestern United States.
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