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AIIS 1110
Indigenous Issues in Global Perspectives

This course attends to the contemporary issues, contexts and experiences of Indigenous peoples. Students will develop a substantive understanding of colonialism and engage in the parallels and differences ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1601

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1016 AIIS 1110   LEC 001

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  •  1017 AIIS 1110   DIS 201

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  •  1018 AIIS 1110   DIS 202

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  •  4533 AIIS 1110   DIS 203

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AIIS 2660
Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History

One thing many Americans think they know is their Indians: Pocahontas, the First Thanksgiving, fighting cowboys, reservation poverty, and casino riches. Under our very noses, however, Native American history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2660, HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17123 AIIS 2660   LEC 001

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AIIS 3248
Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast

This course provides a long-term overview of the indigenous peoples of Cornell's home region and their neighbors from an archaeological perspective.  Cornell students live and work in the traditional territory ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 14981 AIIS 3248   LEC 001

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AIIS 3330
Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Place-Based Ecological Knowledge

Based on indigenous and place-based "ways of knowing," this course (1) presents a theoretical and humanistic framework from which to understand generation of ecological knowledge; (2) examines processes ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3330, NTRES 3330, NTRES 6330

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18597 AIIS 3330   LEC 001

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AIIS 3422
Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North

This course examines the cultures and histories of the circumpolar North. The primary emphasis is on the North American Arctic and Subarctic with some attention to northern Eurasia for comparative purposes. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6422, ANTHR 3422, ANTHR 6422

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 14986 AIIS 3422   LEC 001

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AIIS 4000
Critical Approaches to American Indian and Indigenous Studies: Intellectual History

An interdisciplinary survey of the literature in Native American Studies. Readings engage themes of indigeneity, coloniality, power, and "resistance." The syllabus is formed from some "classic" and canonical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4352 AIIS 4000   LEC 001

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  • Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.

AIIS 4200
Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances

This course looks at the philosopher John Locke as a philosopher of dispossession. There is a uniquely Lockean mode of missionization, conception of mind and re-formulations of the 'soul' applied to dispossess ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  4581 AIIS 4200   SEM 101

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AIIS 4670
Native American Poetry of Resistance

What techniques, tools, and contexts are needed to perform reasonably well-informed readings and interpretations of Native American poetry? If a poem illuminates an injustice, what historical context do ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4670, ENGL 4670

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15638 AIIS 4670   SEM 101

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AIIS 4900
New World Encounters, 1500 - 1800

The discovery of the Americas, wrote Francisco Lopez de Gomara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created." Five centuries ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4900, HIST 4900, HIST 6900

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17157 AIIS 4900   SEM 101

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AIIS 4970
Independent Study

Topic and credit hours TBA between faculty member and student. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1021 AIIS 4970   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Students from all colleges must submit an Independent Study Form (Available online: http://cals.cornell.edu/academics/registrar/policies/#independent-study). Do not sign into section 601. You will be put in the course after submitting form online.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3647 AIIS 4970   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Nadasdy, P

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

AIIS 6000
Critical Approaches to American Indian and Indigenous Studies: Intellectual History

An interdisciplinary survey of the literature in Native American Studies. Readings engage themes of indigeneity, coloniality, power, and "resistance." The syllabus is formed from some "classic" and canonical ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4353 AIIS 6000   LEC 001

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  • Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.

AIIS 6200
Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances

This course looks at the philosopher John Locke as a philosopher of dispossession. There is a uniquely Lockean mode of missionization, conception of mind and re-formulations of the 'soul' applied to dispossess ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •  4582 AIIS 6200   SEM 101

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AIIS 6248
Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast

This course provides a long-term overview of the indigenous peoples of Cornell's home region and their neighbors from an archaeological perspective.  Cornell students live and work in the traditional territory ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 14989 AIIS 6248   LEC 001

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AIIS 6422
Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North

This course examines the cultures and histories of the circumpolar North. The primary emphasis is on the North American Arctic and Subarctic with some attention to northern Eurasia for comparative purposes. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 3422, ANTHR 3422, ANTHR 6422

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 14991 AIIS 6422   LEC 001

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AIIS 6970
Independent Study in American Indian and Indigenous Studies

A student may, with approval of a faculty advisor, study a problem or topic not covered in a regular course or may undertake tutorial study of an independent nature in an area of interest in American Indian ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1022 AIIS 6970   IND 601

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    • TBA

    • Richardson, T

  • Sign up under faculty member's section with prior faculty approval. If you do not see your faculty member listed, contact 140 Roberts Hall.