INDG 2100

Students explore Indigenous societies’ pre-colonial relationships to sexuality and gender and draw upon the context of imperial construction of identity through the Indian Act, Residential Schools, and the Sixties Scoop. As such, students will begin to identify where many Indigenous communities still embrace and contend with the traditional knowledge systems which form understandings of identity within sexuality and gender. Students will be able to pinpoint where identity has been interrupted by imperialism. As a result of understanding identity interruption, students will be able to connect how Indigenous people continue to engage traditional sex and gender through reclamation and decolonization.