AMST 2108

Indigenous Ingenuities as Living Networks

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

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.

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (CA-AS)

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.

• 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.

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