Fall/Winter Timetable
POL2391H1F L0101
Undergraduate Course Code: POL410H1F L0101
Topics in Comparative Politics III
Indigenous Research Consortium
Themes
This seminar explores issues in contemporary Indigenous politics from Indigenous perspectives. We begin the seminar with a brief summary of the legal and political relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state from the Hawthorn Report (1966-67) to the present. In the second part of the seminar, we turn to three contemporary issues in Indigenous politics: Indigenous relationships to land (with a focus on Maori people), the politics of land acknowledgements, and Black and Indigenous politics. In the third part of the seminar, as a culminating class exercise, we revisit the problem of how we can best listen to Indigenous peoples “in and on their own terms.” The seminar asks three questions: How should we understand Indigenous peoples’ relationships to their homelands? What is the Canadian state’s contemporary understanding of the Treaty relationship? And third, how should we – meaning all of us – understand the contemporary Treaty relationship?
Prerequisite: 2.0 credits in POL/ JPA/ JPF/ JPI/ JPR/ JPS/ JRA courses
Texts
Robyn Maynard and Leanne Simpson, Rehearsals for Living
Format and Requirements
Three short essays (15%); Semester-long Journal writing project (70%); Packback Participation (15%)
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