Contemporary Indigenous Environmental Issues

Course Details

  • Acronym AIS 306
  • Instructor(s) Tory Max Johnston
  • Quarter Spring 2024
  • Credits 5
  • Meeting Times MW 930-1120
  • Location SMI 313

Course Description

Indigenous peoples possess a special relationship to their local environments and their homelands including the plants, animals, and other-than-human kin that can be found there, that are unique and specific to particular places and times. Examines relationships as relevant to Native nations today, particularly around issues of Indigenous knowledges, treaty rights, management and governance, direct action movements, and climate change.