Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Carwil Bjork-James)/Course description

This is the course page for the spring 2012 course at Hunter College. For the spring 2015 course at Vanderbilt University, see this course page.

Course description
Indigenous peoples have been intensely involved in struggles over their sovereign, legal, treaty, and human rights for centuries. This course looks at these struggles in the Americas from the people-to-people treaty making to the rise of local and transnational indigenous movements in the second half of the 20th century. We will consider how indigenous peoples both respond to legal frameworks and press their positions into national and international human rights standards, on issues ranging from governance to cultural survival, from environmental management to language policy. A particular emphasis will be put on the Great Lakes region; Chiapas, Mexico; and Bolivia, but students are encouraged to pursue research projects across the hemisphere.

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