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AIIS 1110
Indigenous Issues in Global Perspectives

This course attends to the contemporary issues, contexts and experiences of Indigenous peoples. Students will develop a substantive understanding of colonialism and engage in the parallels and differences ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1601

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1013 AIIS 1110   LEC 001

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    • MW Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  •  1014 AIIS 1110   DIS 201

  •  
    • T Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  •  1015 AIIS 1110   DIS 202

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    • W Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  •  2769 AIIS 1110   DIS 203

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    • M Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 2100
Indigenous Ingenuities as Living Networks

This course explores Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) knowledge and its application across the disciplines and through time. In particular, it offers a glimpse into Cornell's local indigenous culture ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2108, ARTH 2101

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18318 AIIS 2100   LEC 001

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    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Piasta-Mansfield, U

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 2240
Native American Languages

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6240, LING 2248, LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16750 AIIS 2240   LEC 001

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    • MW Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 2660
Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History

One thing many Americans think they know is their Indians: Pocahontas, the First Thanksgiving, fighting cowboys, reservation poverty, and casino riches. Under our very noses, however, Native American history ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2660, HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2867 AIIS 2660   LEC 001

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    • MW Klarman Hall KG70
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Reserved for in-person enrollment only.
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

  •  2949 AIIS 2660   DIS 201

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

  •  2950 AIIS 2660   DIS 202

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

AIIS 2850
Indigenous Representation in Still and Motion Photography

From the moments of contact, the representation of Indigenous peoples posed problems. This course will examine still and motion photographic practices within colonial contexts. These modes of representation ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20923 AIIS 2850   LEC 001

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    • MW Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Uran, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 3325
Cayuga Language and Culture II

A continuation of LING 3324, with further exploration of Cayuga (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ) language and culture. Language instruction continues in an immersive learning environment with a focus on plants and growing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3325

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20522 AIIS 3325   SEM 101

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    • F Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Uran, S

      Whitman, J

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 3422
Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North

This course examines the cultures and histories of the circumpolar North. The primary emphasis is on the North American Arctic and Subarctic with some attention to northern Eurasia for comparative purposes. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6422, ANTHR 3422, ANTHR 6422

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17691 AIIS 3422   LEC 001

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    • TR Mann Library 103
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Nadasdy, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

AIIS 3560
Thinking from a Different Place: Indigenous Philosophies

The Western nation-state has failed to solve the two most pressing, indeed catastrophic, global problems: poverty and climate change. This failure is due to the inability of national policy to imagine ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3562, ENGL 3560

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3336 AIIS 3560   SEM 101

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    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 4000
Critical Approaches to American Indian and Indigenous Studies: Intellectual History

An interdisciplinary survey of the literature in Native American Studies. Readings engage themes of indigeneity, coloniality, power, and "resistance." The syllabus is formed from some "classic" and canonical ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6000

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  2705 AIIS 4000   LEC 001

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    • T Statler Hall 291
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6000

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 19689 AIIS 4000   LEC 002

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    • T Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.

AIIS 4625
Contemporary Native American Fiction

If you haven't read contemporary U.S. American Indian fiction, then it might be fair to ask how much you know about the United States, its origins and its current condition. Since the 1960s, American Indians ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4627, ENGL 4625

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3340 AIIS 4625   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 4770
Haudenosaunee - New York State Relations

The Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) have occupied present-day New York State and Southern Ontario for hundreds of years. Over the years, the Haudenosaunee have lost nearly all of their historic ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6770

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20668 AIIS 4770   SEM 101

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    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Porter, R

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students.

AIIS 4970
Independent Study

Topic and credit hours TBA between faculty member and student. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14367 AIIS 4970   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Cheyfitz, E

      Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    Students must register using the special study form available online: https://dust.cals.cornell.edu/IndStudyPolicy.aspx.Do not sign into section 601.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

AIIS 6000
Critical Approaches to American Indian and Indigenous Studies: Intellectual History

An interdisciplinary survey of the literature in Native American Studies. Readings engage themes of indigeneity, coloniality, power, and "resistance." The syllabus is formed from some "classic" and canonical ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4000

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  2706 AIIS 6000   LEC 001

  •  
    • T Statler Hall 291
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4000

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 19690 AIIS 6000   LEC 002

  •  
    • T Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.

AIIS 6240
Native American Languages

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2240, LING 2248, LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16724 AIIS 6240   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 6422
Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North

This course examines the cultures and histories of the circumpolar North. The primary emphasis is on the North American Arctic and Subarctic with some attention to northern Eurasia for comparative purposes. ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 3422, ANTHR 3422, ANTHR 6422

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17693 AIIS 6422   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Mann Library 103
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Nadasdy, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

AIIS 6770
Haudenosaunee - New York State Relations

The Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) have occupied present-day New York State and Southern Ontario for hundreds of years. Over the years, the Haudenosaunee have lost nearly all of their historic ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4770

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20669 AIIS 6770   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Porter, R

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AIIS 6970
Independent Study in American Indian and Indigenous Studies

A student may, with approval of a faculty advisor, study a problem or topic not covered in a regular course or may undertake tutorial study of an independent nature in an area of interest in American Indian ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1017 AIIS 6970   IND 601

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    • TBA
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021

    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    Sign up under faculty member's section with prior faculty approval. If you do not see your faculty member listed, contact 140 Roberts Hall.