Indigenous Border Studies

Catalog description

A critical perspective on national borders and borderlands through the experiences of Indigenous peoples and nations who are occupied and partitioned by colonial regimes, specifically in the Americas. Survey the impacts of colonial occupation and competition such as militarization, partition, resource extraction, carcerality, gender violence, and impunity on Indigenous peoples, with a particular focus the intersections of gender and sexuality. Students learn transdisciplinary methodologies to examine popular culture and discourse, historical and legal records, film, digital media, literature, cartography, and testimonials to consider both the settler imaginary of the border and Indigenous border resistance.