HRSJ 5020
Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Resurgence of Land Based Pedagogies and Practices
Students explore Indigenous land-based epistemologies within an interdisciplinary framework of Indigenous law, geography, social work, education, health and wellness. Through an alignment with Indigenous intergenerational land-based contexts, practices, and processes, students experience and articulate ethical modes of living that respect Indigenous self-determination and sovereignties. Students take an experiential approach that centres Indigenous knowledges and considers the land as the primary text and instructor. Students explore how policies and practices of colonialism and violence systematically block Indigenous access to the land and how diverse resistance and resurgence movements are asserting Indigenous rights in relation to food, water, education, ceremony, and movement.