AMST 2108

Indigenous Ingenuities as Living Networks

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

This course explores Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) knowledge and its application across the disciplines and through time. In particular, it offers a glimpse into Cornell's local indigenous culture through Haudenosaunee understanding of themselves as a unique people,maintaining traditional teachings and fulfilling ancient responsibilities in the world. Students will have opportunities to meet and interact with local Haudenosaunee knowledge holders, intellectuals, and elders.

Outcomes

• Students will be able to define and analyze Indigenous knowledge systems and situate Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies as unique bodies of knowledge.
• Students will gain an understanding of Haudenosaunee peoples as a distinct cultural entity and as an Indigenous people, exercising their sovereign rights within the territory of the present day United States.
• Students will know how to identify the ways in which Haudenosaunee knowledge systems have adapted over time to meet outside challenges as well as the needs of its members.
• Students will be able to recognize the original territory of the Haudenosaunee and trace its shifting boundaries into the post-Revolutionary period.
• Students will gain awareness of Ithaca's and Cornell's connection to the history of Cayuga people and their homelands.
• Students will become familiar with Haudenosaunee gender roles, social organization, and political and economic systems.
• Students will become aware of Haudenosaunee agriculture practices and botanical and ecological knowledge.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

Comments This class has been approved as a University Course for 2014-2015 and encourages cross-disciplinary study while engaging subjects through new and different lenses.

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