FS 011 PZ -Indigenous Cultural Resurgence

Institution: Pitzer

Description: A generation committed to practicing heritage cultures, economics, and politics and rejuvenating indigenous languages is emerging in Native communities across the Americas. Known in one Ojibwe telling as the Oshkimaadiziig or the New People, communities committed to this cultural resurgence may be found across the settler colonies sometimes called Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Indigenous stories, prophecies, and histories will give you context for these movements. Meetings with indigenous elders and indigenous cultural resurgence community members combined with field encounters with southern California native plants will open ways to learn to live out love for the land again. Accounts of the dilemmas and pitfalls of indigenous building partnerships with settlers will invite you to decolonize solidarity and re/envision both the ancestors and the future.

Prerequisite(s): Some portions of the course require knowledge of basic mathematics including basic algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. This will be accessible to all students who have taken pre-calculus in high school.

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.