Indigeneity as a Category of Critical Analysis

2007-08 American Indian Studies Reading Group

The 2007-2008 American Indian Studies Reading Group will work in conjunction with the "Indigeneity as a Category of Critical Analysis" speaker series. For more information about the series, please click here.

Schedule of Meetings and Reading Events:

During the fall semester, meetings will be held at 4:30pm in the Conference Room of the Native American House located at 1204 West Nevada Street. Upon request, hard copies of readings are available in advance through campus mail. Graduate credit may be available. Contact Tony Clark (tyeeme@gmail.com) for more information.

During the spring semester, meetings will be held on Monday evenings in conjunction with the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory.

Thursday, September 6: Introductions, Setting the Stage

Readings:
Alfred, "Reconceptualizing Nationalism"
Alfred and Corntassel, "Being Indigenous"
Harris and Wasilewski, "Indigeneity"
Holm, Pearson, and Chavis, "Peoplehood"

Thursday, October 4: Intergenerational Post-Traumatic Stress and Peoplehood

Readings:
Gone, "Psychotherapy and Traditional Healing in American Indian Cultural Contexts"
Miller, "Who Are Indigenes? A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Practices"
Porter, "The Demise of the Ongwehoweh and the Rise of the Native Americans"
Yellow Horse Brave Heart and DeBruyn, "The American Indian Holocaust: Healing Historical Unresolved Grief"

Thursday, November 1: Indigeneity and Its Implications for Law and Policy

Readings:
Alfred, "Sovereignty"
Anaya, "Implementing International Norms"
Champagne, "Rethinking Native Relations with Contemporary Nation-States" and "Indigenous Strategies for Engaging Globalism"
Corntassel, "Partnership in Action?"

Thursday, December 6: Reconfiguring the Intellectual

Readings:
Cook-Lynn, New Indians, Old Wars
Turner, "Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy"
Warrior, "The Native American Scholar: Toward a New Intellectual Agenda"

Monday, January 28 at Illinois Program on Research in the Humanities, 805 W Pennsylvania, Urbana, 8:00-10:00PM

Decolonizations: Subaltern Studies and Indigenous Critical Theory

Introducing Subaltern Studies and Indigenous Critical Theory

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. "Ch. 1: A small history of Subaltern Studies." Habitations of modernity : essays in the wake of subaltern studies. University of Chicago Press, 2002. 3-19, 149-153.

Guha, Ranajit. "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India." Selected Subaltern Studies. Guha, Ranajit and Gayatri Spivak (eds.). Oxford University Press, 1988. 37-44.

Alfred, Taiaiake and Jeff Corntassel. "Being Indigenous: Resurgence Against Contemporary Colonialism." Government and Opposition 40. (2005: Sept): 597- 614.

Cheyfitz, Eric. "The (Post)Colonial Predicament of Native American Studies." Interventions 4.3 (2002): 405-427.

*All readings will be on electronic reserves, listed under UNIT 2008, Rothberg.

Monday, February 18 at Illinois Program on Research in the Humanities, 805 W Pennsylvania, Urbana, 8:00-10:00PM

Decolonizations: Subaltern Studies and Indigenous Critical Theory

co-hosted by the Unit on Criticism and the American Indian Studies Program

Monday, March 3 at Illinois Program on Research in the Humanities, 805 W Pennsylvania, Urbana, 8:00-10:00PM

Decolonizations: Subaltern Studies and Indigenous Critical Theory

co-hosted by the Unit on Criticism and the American Indian Studies Program

Monday, April 7 at Illinois Program on Research in the Humanities, 805 W Pennsylvania, Urbana, 8:00-10:00PM

Decolonizations: Subaltern Studies and Indigenous Critical Theory

co-hosted by the Unit on Criticism and the American Indian Studies Program

Monday, April 28 at Illinois Program on Research in the Humanities, 805 W Pennsylvania, Urbana, 8:00-10:00PM

Decolonizations: Subaltern Studies and Indigenous Critical Theory

co-hosted by the Unit on Criticism and the American Indian Studies Program