LIT 363 Native American Oral and Written Narratives

General

• Integrate and apply critical Indigenous interpretive frameworks to analyses of a variety of Indigenous expressive arts, including Dakota, Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, and Potawatomi arts and literatures.
• Examine overarching themes and topics in Indigenous nation-specific historical and contemporary experiences such as, but not limited to, survivance, settler colonialism, decolonization, sovereignty, identity and authenticity, cultural continuity, migration, language, spirituality, economics and politics, urban and reservation life, self-determination, protest and resistance, boarding schools, Indigenized spaces and places, violence and trauma, Two-spirit and indigiqueer perspectives, and race and racism.
• Understand and apply culturally compatible literary terms, theoretical concepts, reading strategies, and analytical methods connected to the study of Indigenous literatures and arts (i.e., tribal critical race theory, pan-Indigenous identity, intersectionality, settler colonial studies, land and treaty rights, genocide, white supremacy, and whiteness)
• Read and respond to Indigenous literatures and arts with sensitivity to current forms of racism, and the legacy of racism and attacks on Indigenous cultures and communities and the lasting effects of white supremacy on Indigenous artistic, educational, economic, legal, and political institutions.