Topics in Native American Culture: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies

In the 2020 U.S. Census, 9.7 million people identified themselves as being of American Indian or Alaska Native descent, a stunning increase from the 5.2 million identified in the 2010 census. Still, Native peoples make up only about 2.9 percent of the population of the United States. These demographic proportions have made it easy to ignore Native America, but American Indian people carry an importance in American culture and society that far outweighs the census numbers. Anyone engaged in law, policy, energy, land management, and state or federal government will inevitably engage the tangle of Indian law and policy. Anyone in the culture industries-film, arts, writing, museums, sports-will confront the curious hold that Native peoples have on American culture. This course offers a broad introductory survey of these and other issues as it explores the development and current state of the interdisciplinary field known as Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Course Attributes: EN S; AS LCD; AS SSC; FA SSC; AR SSC

Topics in Native American Culture: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES 227

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