This City Is So Indigenous

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Sometimes it can be difficult to remember that beneath the concrete and buildings and tunnels, cities are lands and waters. It can be even harder to remember that these are lands and waters that Indigenous peoples have been in relation to for millenia. This course attends to urban Indigenous life in US cities, including New York City. By engaging in key readings at the intersection of the fields of Indigenous Studies, history, and education, we will learn about the (attempted) erasures of Indigenous land and life in cities, and specific processes of reclamation through land back and art practice. This course offers different perspectives on how and why this forgetting is produced in cities, and how Indigenous communities work in creative ways to prompt us to remember.