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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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  •  4118 AIIS 1110   DIS 203

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AIIS 1123
FWS: Indigeneity as Rights: Haudenosaunee Rights Advocacy

The 20th century Haudenosaunee delegations to international fora in Geneva, Switzerland accompanied by the sovereign acts of travelling on the Haudenosaunee-issued passports paved way for the ratification ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17736 AIIS 1123   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

AIIS 2100
Indigenous Ingenuities as Living Networks

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 ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2108, ARTH 2101

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17638 AIIS 2100   LEC 001

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AIIS 2240
Native American Languages

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6240, LING 2248, LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18006 AIIS 2240   LEC 001

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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.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2660, HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4374 AIIS 2660   LEC 001

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  • 16563 AIIS 2660   DIS 201

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  • 16564 AIIS 2660   DIS 202

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  • 16565 AIIS 2660   DIS 203

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    • Parmenter, J

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  • 16566 AIIS 2660   DIS 204

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    • Parmenter, J

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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

  •  3993 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

  •  4141 AIIS 4200   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

      Jordan, K

  • 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.

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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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3994 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

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Syllabi: none

  •  4142 AIIS 6200   SEM 101

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AIIS 6240
Native American Languages

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2240, LING 2248, LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18453 AIIS 6240   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

      Rickard, J

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