Day 1 - Monday June 24, 2024
Introduction: Situating Indigenous Philosophy
Activity: Community Norms Case Studies
Readings to Discuss:
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2021. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. 3rd edition. Bloomsbury.
“Chapter 1: Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory,” 19-41.
“Chapter 2: Research Through Imperial Eyes," 42-57.
Introduction: Situating Indigenous Philosophy (cont.)
Key Concepts: Indigenous Conceptions of Incommensurability; Research Ethics; Knowledge-Exchange Protocols
Readings to Discuss:
Jeffredo-Warden, Lousie V. 1999. “Perceiving, Experiencing, and Expressing the Sacred: An Indigenous Southern Californian View.” In Over The Edge, 329–38. University of California Press.
Meissner, Shelbi Nahwilet. 2023. “‘World’-Traveling in Tule Canoes: Indigenous Philosophies of Language & An Ethic of Incommensurability,” Hypatia 38.4: 849-870.
Rasmussen, Derek, and Tommy Akulukjuk. 2009. “My Father Was Told to Talk to the Environment First Before Anything Else: Arctic Environmental Education in the Language of the Land.” In Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education, 285-98. Hampton Press.
Day 2 - Tuesday June 25, 2024
Threshold Concept #1: Sovereignty
Key Concepts: Tribal Sovereignty, Federal Indian Law, Federal Recognition, Plenary Power
Readings to Discuss:
Harjo, Laura. 2019. “Introduction: Renegotiating Mvskoke Knowledge.” In Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity, 3-48. University of Arizona Press.
Fletcher, Matthew, and Wenona Singel. 2019. American Indian Law: When Two Sovereigns Collide. Reasonably Speaking Podcast: https://www.ali.org/news/podcast/episode/american-indian-law-when-two-sovereigns-collide/
Season 2, Episode 5 of This Land: crooked.com/podcast/5-pro-bono/
Threshold Concept #1: Sovereignty (cont.)
Key Concepts: Data Sovereignty, Epistemic Sovereignty
Readings to Discuss:
Whyte, Kyle. 2018. “What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for
Indigenous Peoples?” In Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability, 57-82. Cambridge University Press
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2021. ""Chapter 3: Colonizing Knowledges." In Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, 58-77. Third Edition. Bloomsbury.
Recommended:
“The Professor and the Pueblo” at https://www.sfreporter.com/news/coverstories/2016/01/26/the-professor-and-the-pueblo/ (Links to an external site.)
Native American Tribes Clash With University of California at https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2018/07/22/native-american-tribes-want-uc-system-turn-over-bones-other-remains/810958002/
Protecting Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights: Tools That Work | Cultural Survival https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/protecting-indigenous-intellectual-property-rights-tools
Hodge, F.S.. 2012. “No Meaningful Apology for American Indian Unethical Research Abuses,” Ethics & Behavior 22.6: 431-444
Day 3 - Wednesday June 26, 2024
Threshold Concept #2: Land
Key Concepts: relationality, covenant of reciprocity
Readings to Discuss:
Watts, Vanessa. 2013. “Indigenous Place-Thought,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 2.1: 20-34.
Murdock, Esme. 2022. “Terrortories: Colonialism’s Built Environments as Structural Disablement,” Critical Philosophy of Race 10.1: 106-127.
Chaudhuri, Jean and Joyotpaul Chaudhuri. 2001. "The Harmony of Nature, Norms, and Production." In A Sacred Path: The Way of Muscogee Creeks, 95-115. UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
Yuan, Christine, dir. 2017. Tending The Wild, PBS. Documentary. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/tending-the-wild/episodes/tending-the-wild
Threshold Concept #3: Decolonization
Key Concepts: LANDBACK, incommensurability with reparations, Indigenous futurity, Settler futurity
Reading to Discuss:
Burkhart, Brian. (2020) “The Groundedness of Normativity or Indigenous Normativity Through the Land.” In Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality, 40–59. Taylor & Francis.
Recommended:
Briarpatch: September/October 2020 The Land Back Issue https://briarpatchmagazine.com/issues/view/september-october-2020.
Yellowhead Institute. “Land Back; A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper.” Yellowhead Institute, 2019. https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/red-paper-report-final.pdf
Day 4 - Thursday June 27, 2024
Threshold Concept #4: Indigenous Feminisms
Key Concepts: Indigenous Conceptions of Gender and Sexuality, Two-Spirit Activism, MMIW and violence against the land
Readings to Discuss:
Coburn, Elaine and Emma LaRocque. 2020. “Gender and Sexuality: Indigenous Feminist Perspectives.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality and Canadian Politics, 101-119. Palgrave Macmillan.
Miranda, Deborah. 2010. “Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California,” GLQ: a Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16: 253– 84.
Grisafi, Lily. 2020. “Living in the Blast Zone: Sexual Violence Piped onto Native Land by Extractive Industries,” Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 53.4: 509-539
Threshold Concept #5: Cultural Reclamation
Key Concepts: Reclamation v. revitalization, Repatriation v. Rematriation, trickster hermeneutics
Readings to Discuss:
Wesley, Saylesh. 2014. “Twin-Spirited Woman: Sts'iyóye smestíyexw slhá:li,” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.3: 338-351.
Meissner, Shelbi Nahwilet and Bryce Huebner. 2023. “Outlaw Epistemology: Resisting the viciousness of country music’s settler ignorance,” Philosophical Issues 32: 214–232.
Simpson, Leanne. How To Steal A Canoe. (2016). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp5oGZ1r60g
Recommended:
Daniel Heath Justice. 2010. “Notes Towards a Theory of Anomaly,” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 16: 207-242 (focus on 207-226).
Day 5 - Friday June 28, 2024
(Re)introduction: Teaching Indigenous Philosophy
Key Concepts: Leaving Room for Incommensurability, Indigenous Philosophies of Education
Readings to Discuss:
Marquez, Bayley J.. 2024. Plantation Pedagogies: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space. University of California Press.
“Chapter 1: Plantation Pedagogy: Educative Space, and Currents of Colonialism,” 28-54
“Chapter 6: Teachers of Teachers: The Expansion of Plantation Pedagogy through Teacher Training,” 152-175.
“Chapter 7: ‘Better Land, Better Stock, Better People’: The School as Experiment Station and Laboratory," 176-196.
“Conclusion: Leaning by (Not) Doing?,” 197-206.
Closing Ceremony