NASX 235 Oral and Written Traditions Of American Indians

Students will survey oral and written traditions of American Indian people. The course will explore the role of traditional oral literature and the storyteller in the cultures of American Indian tribes and will also study American Indian and First Nations written traditions and knowledge. Topics include cosmology, stories of morals and good governance, creation myths, migration legends, trickster tales, and nature lore, tales of monsters and heroes, histories band culture-specific stories. Discussions will assist students to analyze and understand American Indian knowledge and stories and their relationship to rituals and symbols integral to American Indian tradition.

Distribution

Native Studies

Offered

Fall