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ANTH 200 - Indigenous People's Ways of Knowing in Canada

Canada’s First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples are incredibly diverse, as are their knowledge systems. Knowledge systems are linked to land and land is linked to language, story, traditional ecological knowledge, epistemology, and ceremony. How can knowledge be known? How was knowledge traditionally acquired? How can knowledge be taught? This course will explore how these ‘ways of knowing’ manifest themselves through language, spiritualism, and pedagogical approaches. Students in this course will focus on topics such as understanding of place, story and ceremony, traditional ecological knowledge, and historical and contemporary practices. An additional focus will be exploring these topics through film and documentary. Each week will focus on themes and concepts and the course will involve a series of online discussions and activities.
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