NAS 163v - Indigenous Relationships with NonHuman Animals
Taught by Dr. Christine Ami.
Required synchronous discussion Tuesdays 1:10-3pm, asynchronous lecture.
Major topics for 2026 Summer Session I:
Abalone Tales and University of California System
Turtle Island and Nishnaabeg Creation Stories
Buffalo Consciousness and Lakata Treating Making
Kangaroos and Australian Nation Building
Rez Dogs and Animal Abuse
Goat Relatives and Himalayan Slaughters
Navajo sheep and Co-constitutive Animal Genocide
Deconstruction of anthropocentrism. How Indigenous relationships between human and nonhuman animals are created, maintained, and destroyed. Critiques of the Social Sciences, STEM, and Humanities’ approaches to human-nonhuman relations offered by Indigenous people, scholars, and knowledge holders.