Course Details

This Honors Interdisciplinary Study discussion course explores knowledges, philosophies and histories as told by contemporary indigenous people. “Story” is the central concept of this course with stories and storytelling used as both pedagogy and source information. Story is understood to be any narration on any topic about any event with any amount of veracity and/or claim to exclusiveness of accuracy.

We will be conversing with these ideas:
– performances of living
– methodologies for scholarship
– knowledge systems and their genealogies including creation stories
– negotiating and negotiated histories
– identity – including gender, phenotype, ability, history

Over the quarter, I would like to see us spend time with these tasks:
– develop and revise a syllabus for our next ten weeks learning together
– learn within Anishinaabe pedagogical concepts
– undertake cognitive and experiential explorations of knowledges and philosophies within stories told by indigenous [and other] peoples
– share our insights and knowledges with other learners in the class as we encounter new knowledges and come to more developed understandings
– learn as a group with an implied responsibility for each of us to optimize the learning of everyone
– explore Anishinaabe and Sto:lo concepts of storytelling as pedagogy and source material
– hone our critical thinking skills
– improve our ability to develop and ask good questions
– write and perform a story similar to those within Anishinaabe and Sto:lo practice