FNDT-115-SU01-2023: Indigenous Presence / Locating Ourselves In Place
This course has been designed to help students develop a foundational field of understanding of Indigenous peoples, knowledges and ways of doing in order to begin to develop a critical consciousness about Indigeneity and the distortion of “Canadian/Colonial” histories. In order not to generalize about Indigenous identities and cultures this course emphasizes that Indigenous peoples have a multiplicity of practices and protocols (traditional, customary and contemporary practices and ways of thinking and doing). The course focuses these conversations through the lens of Indigenous aesthetic realms and how concepts of Indigenous aesthetics extend far beyond the aesthetic realm of cultural production. Indigenous aesthetics articulates and exemplifies the unified nature of reality and as such offers strategies and ways of thinking and perceiving that can lead us, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to establish an inherently viable, integral and sustainable way of being in the world.
This course has been designed to help students develop a foundational field of understanding of Indigenous peoples, knowledges and ways of doing in order to begin to develop a critical consciousness about Indigeneity and the distortion of “Canadian/Colonial” histories. In order not to generalize about Indigenous identities and cultures this course emphasizes that Indigenous peoples have a multiplicity of practices and protocols (traditional, customary and contemporary practices and ways of thinking and doing). The course focuses these conversations through the lens of Indigenous aesthetic realms and how concepts of Indigenous aesthetics extend far beyond the aesthetic realm of cultural production. Indigenous aesthetics articulates and exemplifies the unified nature of reality and as such offers strategies and ways of thinking and perceiving that can lead us, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to establish an inherently viable, integral and sustainable way of being in the world.
- Teacher: Patricia Vera