ANTHR 7755 - Indigenous Erasure and Resurfacing

(crosslisted) AMST 7555, ARKEO 7755

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with AMST 4555/ANTHR 4755/ARKEO 4755/SHUM 4555.

K. Jordan.

This seminar examines long-term colonialist processes of erasing Indigenous histories, and recent attempts to bring this heritage back to visibility. We will read texts by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Jean O’Brien, Patrick Wolfe, Keith Basso, Andrea Lynn Smith, and others. Students will engage in critical analysis of primary sources, Indigenous histories, and monuments related to the American 1779 Sullivan-Clinton invasion of Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Confederacy) territory and also the post-1779 Haudenosaunee reoccupations after the devastation. Student projects will focus on local Indigenous heritage and can include artwork, videos, counter-monument designs, poetry, and prose fiction, as well as more traditional academic research papers.