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AMIN 1001 - Introduction to American Indian & Indigenous Peoples (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to how voices/visions of indigenous peoples have contributed to history of cultural expression in North America. Historic contexts/varieties of this expression by region, tribal cultures. Emphasizes contributions in literature, philosophy, politics, fine arts.

AMIN 1003 - American Indians in Minnesota (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

History, culture, and lived experience of American Indian people in Minnesota. Self-representation and histories of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Dakota peoples through film, music, oral traditions, and written texts. Work by non-Indian scholars focuses on cultural, philosophical, and linguistic perspectives of Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples.

AMIN 1002 - Indigenous Peoples in Global Perspective (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 1002/Pol 1019
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Colonial experiences of selected indigenous peoples in Americas, Euroasia, Pacific Rim.

POL 1019 - Indigenous Peoples in Global Perspective (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 1002/Pol 1019
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Colonial experiences of selected indigenous peoples in Americas, Euroasia, Pacific Rim.

AMIN 3304 - Indigenous Filmmakers (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis of film/video made by American Indian writers, directors, producers within contexts of tribally specific cultures/histories, as well as within context of US culture/film history.

AMIN 3312 - American Indian Environmental Issues and Ecological Perspectives (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

American Indian environmental issues in U.S./Canada. Analysis of social, political, economic, legal forces/institutions. Colonial histories/tribal sovereignty.

AMIN 3604 - Indigenous Immersion Methods for the Home, Classroom, and Community

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Prepares students as advanced language students to participate in and facilitate immersion environments within both formal and informal settings including the home, second language classrooms, immersion classrooms, language tables, immersion camps, and other community settings. prereq: OJIB 3104, DAKO 3124 or four semesters of another target language, or with instructor approval.

AMIN 3711 - Dakota Culture and History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Dakota culture, language, history, literature. Contemporary issues, the arts.

AMIN 4511 - Indigenous Political Economies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Sources, nature, consequences of social/economic development/change in Indian communities. Precontact Indian communities. Effect of European contact. Social movements into 20th century, including phenomenon of urban Indian communities. prereq: 1001

AMIN 4532 - Vine Deloria, Jr.: A Renaissance Indigenous Figure

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

In-depth consideration of indigenous scholar and activist Vine Deloria Jr.'s intellectual works, and impacts on fields such as law, religion and theology, history, natural and social science, literary criticism, education, anthropology, paleontology, and political science. Students read, discuss, produce research on an aspect of Deloria's work.

AMIN 4990 - Topics in American Indian Studies

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

AMIN 4994 - Directed Research

Credits:	1.0 -12.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Individually arranged research with faculty to meet student needs and interests. Prereq-instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

AMIN 4996 - Field Study

Credits:	1.0 -12.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Opportunities for experiential learning in a variety of American Indian community settings. Consult department faculty at least one term before enrolling. Prereq-instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

AMIN 5202 - Indigenous Peoples and Issues Before the United States Supreme Court

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar explores the role and the practice of the US Supreme Court as a policy-making institution when dealing with indigenous nations and their citizens. Analysis of theoretical, behavioral, political, and institutional perspectives. Student work includes reading and textual analysis, leading discussions, analytical research paper.

AMIN 5920 - Topics in American Indian Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Various topics in American Indian studies, depending upon instructor/semester.

AMIN 3001 - Public History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3001/AmSt 3003/Hist 3001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Interpretations of collective past as produced in public venues, including museum exhibitions, films, theme parks, and websites. Intellectual and political issues in history produced for public audiences. Career opportunities.

AMST 3003 - Public History

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3001/AmSt 3003/Hist 3001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Interpretations of collective past as produced in public venues, including museum exhibitions, films, theme parks, websites. Intellectual and political issues in history produced for public audiences. Career opportunities.

HIST 3001 - Public History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3001/AmSt 3003/Hist 3001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Interpretations of collective past as produced in public venues, including museum exhibitions, films, theme parks, websites. Intellectual and political issues in history produced for public audiences. Career opportunities.

AMIN 3107 - The Structure of Anishinaabemowin: The Ojibwe Language

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3107/5107
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Analysis of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) structure in the context of an endangered Algonquian language. Examine writing systems, phonological (sound) features, morphology (word parts), and grammatical structures as documented historically and presently. The aim of the course is to provide students with an overview of the structure of Anishinaabemowin and introduce them to primary sources readings. Unlike language courses students may be familiar with from other departments, this course will not require memorization of extensive amounts of vocabulary ? our focus will be on understanding the structure of the language and acquiring an appreciation of the relevant linguistic issues and language revitalization issues.

AMIN 5107 - The Structure of Anishinaabemowin: The Ojibwe Language

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3107/5107
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Analysis of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) structure in the context of an endangered Algonquian language. Examine writing systems, phonological (sound) features, morphology (word parts), and grammatical structures as documented historically and presently. The aim of the course is to provide students with an overview of the structure of Anishinaabemowin and introduce them to primary sources readings. Unlike language courses students may be familiar with from other departments, this course will not require memorization of extensive amounts of vocabulary ? our focus will be on understanding the structure of the language and acquiring an appreciation of the relevant linguistic issues and language revitalization issues.

AMIN 3141 - American Indian Language Planning

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3141/5141
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Planning for maintenance/revitalization of North American indigenous languages. Condition/status of languages. Documentation, cultivation, literacy, education.

AMIN 5141 - American Indian Language Planning

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3141/5141
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Planning for maintenance/revitalization of North American indigenous languages. Condition/status of languages. Documentation, cultivation, literacy, education. prereq: 3103 or 3123 or instr consent

AMIN 3201W - American Indian Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3201W/EngL 3201W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Comparative studies of oral traditions, modern literature from various tribal cultures.

AMIN 3301 - American Indian Philosophies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3301/RelS 3321
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

World views of indigenous people of Americas. Topics include native medicines/healing practices, ceremonies/ritual, governance, ecology, humor, tribal histories, status of contemporary native people.

RELS 3321 - American Indian Philosophies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3301/RelS 3321
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

World views of indigenous people of Americas. Topics include native medicines/healing practices, ceremonies/ritual, governance, ecology, humor, tribal histories, status of contemporary native people.

AMIN 3402 - American Indians and the Cinema (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3402/AmIn 5402
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Representations of American Indians in film, historically/contemporarily. What such representations assert about Native experience and cultural viability. What they reflect about particular relationships of power.

AMIN 5402 - American Indians and the Cinema (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3402/AmIn 5402
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Representations of American Indians in film, historically/contemporarily. What such representations assert about Native experience and cultural viability. What they reflect about particular relationships of power.

AMIN 3409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

AMIN 5409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

AMIN 3501 - Indigenous Tribal Governments and Politics (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3501/Pol 3701
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

History, development, structure, politics of American Indian Governments. North American indigenous societies from pre-colonial times to present. Evolution of aboriginal governments confronted/affected by colonizing forces of European/Euro-American states. Bearing of dual citizenship on nature/powers of tribal governments in relation to states, federal government.

POL 3701 - Indigenous Tribal Governments and Politics (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3501/Pol 3701
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

History, development, structure, politics of American Indian Governments. North American indigenous societies from pre-colonial times to present. Evolution of aboriginal governments confronted/affected by colonizing forces of European/Euro-American states. Bearing of dual citizenship on nature/powers of tribal governments in relation to states and federal government.

AMIN 3602 - Archaeology and Native Americans (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3601/Anth 5601/AmIn 3602/
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Historical, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of the relationship of American archaeology to American Indian people. Case studies of how representational narratives about Native people are created through archaeology; responses by Native communities; and the frameworks for collaborative and equitable archaeological practice. Professional ethics in archaeology/heritage studies in American contexts.

ANTH 3601 - Archaeology and Native Americans (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3601/Anth 5601/AmIn 3602/
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Historical, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of the relationship of American archaeology to American Indian people. Case studies of how representational narratives about Native people are created through archaeology; responses by Native communities; and the frameworks for collaborative and equitable archaeological practice. Professional ethics in archaeology/heritage studies in American contexts.

ANTH 5601 - Archaeology and Native Americans (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3601/Anth 5601/AmIn 3602/
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Historical, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of the relationship of American archaeology to American Indian people. Case studies of how representational narratives about Native people are created through archaeology; responses by Native communities; and the frameworks for collaborative and equitable archaeological practice. Professional ethics in archaeology/heritage studies in American contexts.

AMIN 3871 - American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830 (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3871
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

American Indian history from the era of ancient Native America to the removal era. Social, cultural, political, and economic diversity of Native American peoples and Native American experiences with European colonialism.

HIST 3871 - American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830 (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3871
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to American Indian history from ancient native America to the removal era. Focuses on the social, cultural, political, and economic diversity of Native American peoples and Native American experiences with European colonialism.

AMIN 3872 - American Indian History: 1830 to the Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3872
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Focus on the impact of federal Indian policy on American Indian cultures and societies, and on American Indian culture change.

HIST 3872 - American Indian History: 1830 to the Present (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn/Hist 3872
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Focus on the impact of federal Indian policy on American Indian cultures and societies, and on American Indian culture change.

AAS 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AFRO 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AMIN 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

CHIC 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of the structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AMIN 4501 - Law, Sovereignty, and Treaty Rights

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 4501/Pol 4507
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

History of American Indian law and the post-contact effects of colonial and U.S. law on American Indians through the 20th century. prereq: 1001

AMIN 4525W - Federal Indian Policy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 4525W/Pol 4525W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Formulation, implementation, evolution, comparison of Indian policy from pre-colonial times to self-governance new millennium. Theoretical approaches to federal Indian policy. Major federal Indian policies. Views/attitudes of policy-makers, reactions of indigenous nations to policies. Effect of bodies of literature related to policies.

POL 4525W - Federal Indian Policy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 4525W/Pol 4525W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Formulation, implementation, evolution, comparison of Indian policy from pre-colonial times to self-governance of new millennium. Theoretical approaches to federal Indian policy. Major federal Indian policies. Views/attitudes of policy-makers, reactions of indigenous nations to policies. Effect of bodies of literature on policies.

AMIN 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

AMST 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

ANTH 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the inter connections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

CHIC 3412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

CHIC 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

GWSS 3515 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the interconnections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

AMIN 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

HIST 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

University Catalogs

American Indian Studies Minor