Indigenous Storytelling and Histories of Place

More than antiquated stories confined to the archival record, Indigenous storytelling provides living communities today with avenues to communicate directly with ancestors to co-create abundant futures. Expressed through genealogical relationships to lands, waters, and peoples, Native communities cultivate abundance through providing care and mutual aid to each other and their environments. The course provides a framework for observing abundance created by historical and present Indigenous communities through engaged readings of critical texts and embodied practices of storytelling through art. By rejecting models of scarcity and loss of knowledge and power projected by five centuries of colonization, students will build a practical toolkit for creating abundance in everyday life.