Social Change in American Indian Communities

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Committed to the preservation of political autonomy and cultural identity, American Indian communities are increasingly gaining rule over the effects of social change impinged upon them. Recapturing their histories and redefining colonial relationships, they are forging a preferred future grounded in their own traditional institutions of community, religions, and strengthening of self-determination. Provides students with: (1) an understanding of the enduring struggle of American Indian communities to resist the movement of collective assimilation and retain the right of self-determination; (2) an examination over time of social changes in American Indian communities' social structures and their political and social movements towards the establishment of environmental, economic, and social justice; and (3) knowledge of strategies and tactic for achieving social change within American Indian communities that support Indian self-determination and self-governance.