CULANTH 108CNS · also ICS 130CNS
Indigenous Sovereignties, Settler Colonialisms, & Everyday Futurisms
Courtney Lewis
Description from DukeHub
This course introduces students to the histories, contemporary realities, and intellectual traditions of Native Nations within the broader landscape of global Indigeneity, with particular attention to settler colonialism as an ongoing structure shaping land, governance, economy, cultural representation, and inter-National relationships. Through scholarship by Indigenous thinkers who founded ideas of decolonizing and Indigenizing methodologies, analysis of historic and contemporary issues, and engagement with Indigenous-created media and art, students will explore how Native Nations assert sovereignty, challenge extractive settler colonial practices, and cultivate futures grounded in community relationality and thrivance.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "governance"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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