Instructor: Ann Braude
Meeting time: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30 - 11:45

Based around a series of guest speakers, the course interrogates the study of religion in general and of Native American traditions in particular in light of indigenous perspectives and histories. Questions of appropriation, repatriation and religious freedom will be approached through legal as well as cultural...

Instructor: Matt Liebmann
Meeting time: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00 - 1:15

In 1492 Native Americans discovered Europeans, changing the world forever.  The European invasion of the Americas triggered demographic, economic, and ecological changes on an unprecedented scale.  The subsequent movement of plants, animals, and goods prompted global shifts in population, exploitation of resources, and the transformation of environments... Read more about ANTHRO 1190: The Invasion of America: The Anthropology of American Encounters, 1492-1830

Instructor: David Carrasco and William Fash
Meeting time: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30-2:45 pm

This course provides students with the opportunity to explore how the...

Instructor: Arianne Sedef Urus
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45 - 11:45

This course examines how the right to natural resources became contested in North America following European conquest and westward expansion, with a particular emphasis on the period before 1865. Sometimes these contested resources have been clean air, soil, and water, while at other times they included fisheries, forests, agricultural fields, animal pastures, or oil. From ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DX: Environmental Justice in North America

Instructor: Kate Rennebohm
Meeting time: Wednesday, 3:00-5:45

Can film change the world? What can the history of engaged film and media-making teach us about politics, and vice-versa? This course will study instances of political filmmaking from around the world: early 20th century avant-garde filmmaking, anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist cinemas, feminist and queer filmmaking, Indigenous cinemas, and more. ... Read more about AFVS 197K: Cinemas of Resistance: Political Filmmaking Across the Globe

Instructor: Shawon Kinew
Meeting time: Friday, 12:00-2:45

Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is home to 25 oil portraits of indigenous American leaders painted in the first half of the 19th century. Originally commissioned to preserve cultures an American bureaucrat feared would be extinct, these paintings transcend a moribund history. In fact, the Native American nations represented are still here.... Read more about FRSEMR 631: The First Americans: Portraits of Indigenous Power and Diplomacy

Instructor: Chris Clements
Meeting time: Monday, 9:45 - 11:45

This course will explore various forms of Native American cultural and political production in the twentieth century. Drawing on fiction, film, historical documents, documentaries, photographs, nonfiction, and memoirs, this class will explore the ways in which Indigenous people have articulated both belonging and separateness from the United States. In addition to its focus ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DJ: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: Native America in the Twentieth Century

Instructor: Joseph Gone
Meeting time: Monday, 12:00 - 2:45

American Indian, First Nations, and other Indigenous communities of the USA and Canada contend with disproportionately high rates of “psychiatric” distress. Many of these communities attribute this distress to their long colonial encounters with European settlers. Concurrently, throughout the 20th century, the disciplines and professions associated with mind, brain, and behavior (e.g., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis) consolidated their authority and influence within mainstream society.... Read more about ANTHRO 1900: Counseling as Colonization? Native American Encounters with the Clinical Psy-ences

Instructor: James Mestaz
Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00 - 5:00

Water is life, but is it a human right? Water governance is a contentious issue globally because humans rely on water for nearly every productive activity; moreover, it is often scarce and not distributed equally. To better understand the persistence and escalation of struggles over water access around the world, this course uses a multidisciplinary approach ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90EA: Water Justice and Resistance in the Americas

Instructor: Vivian Shaw
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00

How does your zip code affect your health? What are the social and political consequences to building a dam? How do natural disasters exacerbate racial inequalities? This seminar explores environmental issues through the lens of inequality, focusing particularly on race, indigeneity, gender, and (dis)ability...