Minor in Indigenous Studies - Land, Territory, and Community Development
INDG 4002 Land, Territory, and Community Development
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Settler constructions of Indigeneity are frequently rooted in the past, with authenticity determined by how closely Indigenous identity or cultural expression relates to a pre-contact standard recorded from a settler perspective. In Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, for example, lawyers opposing the land claim of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en nations argued there had been no sufficient, continuous, and exclusive Indigenous occupation of the territory, because the claimants ate pizza and drove motor vehicles. This course will draw on news media, stories, poetry, and film to ask: How are Indigenous people framing their relationship between land and identity? How have events like the Oka Resistance drawn connections between identity, nationhood, and development?
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