Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4C · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area D6 · CSU GE Area D3 · CSU GE Area D · CSU American Institutions Area US1Description(No prerequisite.) This course is a critical review and analysis of Indigenous Peoples, their Tribal Nations and communities, from the time of Native origin stories to the present day in this American Hemisphere. Central importance is given to Indigenous Peoples telling their own stories and histories. First is an examination of the intellectual, ontological, and structural traditions and contributions from a representative selection of Native American cultures, prior to the invasion of settler-colonials and Western colonial modes of thought and analysis. Critical analysis will be applied to the role of these traditions and modes of thought in both the struggles and successes in fighting off the sustained colonization and neo-colonization by Europeans and non-Native Americans. Forms of protest and resistance and strategies for personal and tribal liberation will be examined. The successive phases of colonialization and the paradigms, practices, and policies of settler-colonials will be articulated and then deconstructed. This deconstruction will use a range of decolonizing and anti-racist approaches. The racialization of Native Americans by Eurocentric cultural and structural elements will be critically analyzed along with how this racialization intersects with capitalism and imperialism to produce the genocide of Native Americans and the seizure of their land. Both theory and knowledge produced by Indigenous Peoples will be put at the center of the course: ranging from Western academic writing by Indigenous scholars to oral histories to written accounts of lived experience. A focus throughout the course is the critical articulation and analysis of agency, adaptation, and resilience by Native Americans to increase their sovereignty and right to self-determinization. (CSU/UC) AA/AS COM GE Area 4, Cal-GETC Area 4, CSU US History, Constitution, and American Ideals (formerly AA/AS Areas B or F & G, CSU Area D, IGETC Area 4C) 