Indigenous Epistemologies and their Disruptions Ethnic Studies 270 Ross Frank Fall 2010 Office: SSB 227 Thursday 11:00AM – 1:50PM, SSB 253 Phone: 534-6646 [email protected] Course materials available at: http://dss.ucsd.edu/~rfrank Course Description This seminar will explore indigenous epistemologies, their ontological dimensions, the methodological issues surrounding related research, and their significance in relation to the production of knowledge and the histories, presents, and futures of Native American and Indigenous people. The purpose of this course is to help equip participants to investigate the larger empirical and theoretical implications of alternative systems of knowledge that emerge from global indigeneity. Successful consideration of the dimensions, complexities, and significance of this topic depend on the engaged, imaginative, and generous, participation in all seminar activities. Students are encouraged to bring their interests, knowledge, experience, and other interpretive materials to the seminar. Accordingly, course evaluation will be based upon the nature and quality of your participation, in oral and written forms equally. Weekly assignments will involve presentations and leading class discussions, as well as short written analyses that will be shared with the other seminar participants. Texts ordered at UCSD Bookstore - Price Center (unless otherwise noted): Alfred, Taiaiake. Wasáse : Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2005. Bruyneel, Kevin. The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.- Indigenous Relations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. J. Kehaulani Kauanui. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. Durham, Duke University Press, 2008. Kuokkanen, Rauna Johanna. Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. Miller, Bruce. Invisible Indigenes: the politics of nonrecognition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Richland, Justin B. Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Smith, Andrea. Native Americans and the Christian Right : The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Warrior, Robert Allen. The People and the Word : Reading Native Nonfiction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.Ethnic Studies 270 Fall 2010 page 2 Wilson, Angela Cavender, and Michael Yellow Bird. For Indigenous Eyes Only : A Decolonization Handbook. Santa Fe: School of American Research, 2005. You will also read one of the following in Week 5 – please wait for instructions before purchasing: Sioui, Georges E., and trans. Jane Brierley. Huron-Wendat: The Heritage of the Circle. Vancouver, East Lansing: UBC Press, Michigan State University Press, 1999. Wilson, Angela Cavender, Eli Taylor, and Carolynn I. Schommer. Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Denetdale, Janet. Reclaiming Diné History. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2007. Connolly Miskwish, Michael. Kumeyaay: A History Textbook. El Cajon: Sycuan Press, 2007. Syllabus Readings are marked in the syllabus according to the following: B available at UCSD Bookstore. R available on course website: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~rfrank W web link to publication (UCSD restricted) NOTE: Please do the readings prior to each week’s meeting. WEEK ONE: September 24 Contextual Epistemes Mignolo, Walter. Local Histories/Global Designs : Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000: 3-88. R Wynter, Sylvia. "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, after Man, Its Overrepresentation--an Argument." CR: The New Centennial Review 3.3 (2003): 257-337. W http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ncr/summary/v003/3.3wynter.html Povinelli, Elizabeth A. The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002: 1-34. R Coulthard, Glen S. "Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the 'Politics of Recognition' in Canada." Contemporary Political Theory 6.4 (2007): 437-460. REthnic Studies 270 Fall 2010 page 3 WEEK TWO: October 1 Indigenizing the Academy Kuokkanen, Rauna Johanna. Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. B Tuck, Eve. "Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities." Harvard Educational Review 79:3 (Fall 2009): 409-28. W http://www.metapress.com/content/n0016675661t3n15/fulltext.pdf WEEK THREE: October 7 Engaging Native Feminisms Smith, Andrea. Native Americans and the Christian Right : The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. B Smith, Andrea. "American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State."American Quarterly 60.2 (2008): 309-315. W http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/aq/summary/v060/60.2.smith01.html Goeman, Mishuana R., “Note Towards a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice”, Wicazo Sa Review 24.2 (2009): 169-187. W http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wic/summary/v024/24.2.goeman01.html Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani. "Native Hawaiian Decolonization and the Politics of Gender." American Quarterly 60.2 (2008): 281-287. W http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/aq/summary/v060/60.2.kauanui.html Optional reading: Smith, Andrea, and J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. "Native Feminisms Engage American Studies." American Quarterly 60.2 (2008): 241-49. W http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/aq/summary/v060/60.2.smith.html WEEK FOUR: OCTOBER 14 NO MEETING (we will meet during exam week) WEEK FIVE: October 21 Decolonizing Histories Sioui, Georges E., and trans. Jane Brierley. Huron-Wendat: The Heritage of the Circle. Vancouver, East Lansing: UBC Press, Michigan State University Press, 1999. B Wilson, Angela C., Eli Taylor, Carolynn I. Schommer. Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2005. B Denetdale, Jennifer Nez. Reclaiming Diné History. Tuscon: U. of Arizona Press, 2007. B Connolly Miskwish, Michael. Kumeyaay: A History Textbook. El Cajon: Sycuan Press, 2007. B Optional reading: Simpson, Audra.