Introduction to Indigenous Peoples’ Worldviews (BC Focus)

This course focuses upon understanding experiences and relationships of Indigenous Peoples’ in their homelands and territories located within British Columbia. Students will learn about contemporary issues from an Indigenous Peoples’ perspective. Various perspectives regarding Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination, cognitive justice and sovereignty (or lack thereof), will be examined. A Place Based approach to experiences of colonization enables students to consider Indigenous Peoples’ cultures and means of communicating values, worldviews and beliefs.