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CS92PROD
Settler and Native Ecologies of Power in North America
AMST 352
Spring 2025
Section: 01  

This course examines how settler colonial dis/possession, resource extraction, and spatial domination have generated ecological catastrophes in North America while at the same time shaping discourses of environmental "protection" and "preservation." Reading the work of historians, anthropologists, critical theorists, knowledge-keepers, and activists and examining sites such as national parks and infrastructure projects in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, we will learn how efforts to define, manage, regulate, and exploit "natural" resources occur/red simultaneously with assaults on Native nations' sovereignty. We will explore how Indigenous people(s), in spite of continuous settler state violence and violations, have cared for and defended their lands and human and nonhuman relatives, drawing from a wealth of traditional knowledges and tribal political practices. We will end the course by bringing these critiques to current "environmental issues" such as wildfires, toxic contamination, and pipelines.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS AMST
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Student Option
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(HRAD-MN)
Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74%

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