Academic Calendar 2020/2021 - Indigenous Political Culture
LEAD 2006 Indigenous Political Culture
Prerequisites:
LEAD 1006Hours:
Two hours of lecture and one hour of service learning per week for one term.Credits:
3Description:
Political reality concerns practices and perceptions as well as laws and institutions. Students explore the cultural markers of Indigenous politics, with consideration to distinctive patterns of Indigenous leadership, conceptions of what is a community and what is the person's place in relation to the group. Topics covered may include Indigenous models of federalism, potlatch and the gift economy, modes of resistance to and relations with settler societies. This course includes a service learning component.