SOAN 286 - Land in American Indian Culture, Religion, and History

Credits: 4

This class focuses on the religious, cultural, and historical dimensions of a selected American Indian nation and ties to its lands as they found expression in the beliefs and practices of its pre- and post-reservation communities. The specific themes that the seminar will address are: 1) Lands, Culture, and Cosmology; 2) Lands, Subsistence, and Ceremony; and 3) Land in the Nation’s History; and 4) Sacred Landscape and Contestation. The course may cover the Lakota Sioux, Cherokee, or other Indian nation. Topic for 2014: Markowitz. Planned Offering: Spring 2016 and alternate years.