Course Details

This Honors Interdisciplinary Study discussion course explores knowledges, philosophies and histories as told by indigenous people, including Lakota, Puyallup, Snohomish, Mohawk, Pueblo, Athabascan, Blood, Navajo, Iroquois, Blackfoot, Sto:lo, Anishinaabe, Potawatomi, Seminole, Cherokee, Tlingit, Choctaw, Makah, Suquamish, Cree, Salish, Maori, Zimbabwe, Quandamooka, and others.

“Story” and “Knowledge” are the central concepts 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 – from storytellers in a bighouse to LAN video game parties to LARP events. Politics, philosophies and
performances will be large components of our time together.

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