# Native American and Indigenous Studies ## Programs that support Native and Indigenous courses at Harvard [ ![HUNAP](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/histlit/files/2017.hunap_.logo_.wide_.png?itok=Wmge__7q) ](https://hunap.harvard.edu/) [](https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/) ![EMR](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/histlit/files/emr_logo_web.png?itok=epHrvIwT) [](https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/courses-1) ![Harvard Anthropology](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/deptlogo-1.png?itok=PIRlOUqx) [](/) ![hlbanner1.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/histlit/files/hlbanner1.png?itok=KJ6nx_mz) [](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/) ![Harvard History](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/histlit/files/history-department-logo_01_copy.png?itok=n3RL3k5R) ## 2019-2020 Courses ### Fall, 2019 [### EMR 123: Issues in the Studies of Native American Religion ](/class/emr-123-issues-studies-native-american-religion) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### ANTHRO 1190: The Invasion of America: The Anthropology of American Encounters, 1492-1830 ](/class/anthro-1190-invasion-america-anthropology-american-encounters-1492-1830) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### GENED 1148: Moctezuma's Mexico, Then and Now: The Past as Present in North America ](/class/gened-1148-moctezumas-mexico-then-and-now-past-present-north-america) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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 study of pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mexican and Latina/o cultures provide vital context for understanding today's... [### HIST-LIT 90DX: Environmental Justice in North America ](/class/hist-lit-90dx-environmental-justice-north-america) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HIST 14M: "Black Indians": The Making of an Identity ](/class/hist-14m-black-indians-making-identity) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) Instructor: Tiya Miles Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00 This seminar will explore intersections in African American and Native American histories with an emphasis on pivotal moments in the shaping of a modern identity referred to as “Black Indian.” Students in this... [### AFVS 197K: Cinemas of Resistance: Political Filmmaking Across the Globe ](/class/afvs-197k-cinemas-resistance-political-filmmaking-across-globe) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### FRSEMR 631: The First Americans: Portraits of Indigenous Power and Diplomacy ](/class/frsemr-631-first-americans-portraits-indigenous-power-and-diplomacy) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HIST-LIT 90DJ: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: Native America in the Twentieth Century ](/class/hist-lit-90dj-wounded-knee-standing-rock-native-america-twentieth-century) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### ANTHRO 1900: Counseling as Colonization? Native American Encounters with the Clinical Psy-ences ](/class/anthro-1900-counseling-colonization-native-american-encounters-clinical-psy-ences) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... ### Spring, 2020 [### HIST 1015: Native American Women: History and Myth ](/class/hist-1015-native-american-women-history-and-myth) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) Instructor: Tiya Miles Meeting time: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 - 2:45 This course explores histories of women from diverse indigenous nations within the current boundaries of the United States. We will attend closely to methods and sources employed in historical inquiry... [### HIST-LIT 90EA: Water Justice and Resistance in the Americas ](/class/hist-lit-90ea-water-justice-and-resistance-americas) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### SOCIOL 1103: Environment and Inequality ](/class/sociol-1103-environment-and-inequality) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://portal.my.harvard.edu/psp/hrvihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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...