+*INDIGENOUS AGRICULTURE AND SUBSISTENCE

Catalog description

Introduces subsistence and agriculture including resource use, seasonal rounds, indicator species, ancestral gathering, water ownership, seed saving, and methods of resource use and land management that informed the past and connect to the future. Explores the knowledge of Indigenous peoples through Indigenous guest speakers and various media (developed and presented with permissions of Tribal Nations). Examines contemporary issues including modern stereotypes, women's contributions to agriculture, cultural survival, disease, Tribal AG and Seed Saving Councils, and physical/cultural/spiritual significance of crops in Indigenous communities. Asks students to engage with ancestral culture, theory and power in ethnicity, and historical to contemporary ideologies of government power relationships.