Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionThis course employs theoretical constructs within the field of Native American Studies, such as concepts of sovereignty, tribal nations and governance, colonialism and settler colonialism, Indigeneity, Land Back movements, treaties and legal rights, survivance, cultural continuity and revitalization, gender and sexuality, decolonization, historical trauma and healing, and intellectual trade. Using these frameworks and concepts, this course’s analyses of literature and cultural expression will account for the Native American response within the colonial borders of the United States to historical, political, and legal contexts, with emphasis on the specific religious, linguistic, historical, political and cultural context of Native American literary and cultural achievements. Focus is placed on the particular and collective roles of Native American writers and thinkers in the shaping and development of culture and literature within North America, with emphasis on the intersectionalities of race, gender, class, sexual identity, and interethnic relations. This course is not open to students who have enrolled in or who have received credit for ENGL 153. 