GEG 3300 - Indigenous Territories and Spatial Justice

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): Junior or higher standing

Description: Students investigate how Indigenous Peoples in the U.S. construct, sustain, and defend relationships to land, territory, and place. Through geographic analysis, they examine colonial spatial violence, including dispossession, forced removal, reservation creation, and legal erasure. Students trace how Indigenous nations assert territorial sovereignty and spatial governance through treaties, mapping, jurisdictional claims, and environmental planning. They explore how urban relocation, migration, and displacement reshape Indigenous geographies across rural and urban spaces. Students critically analyze environmental injustice, natural resource extraction, and the role of activism and advocacy in Indigenous resistance. They engage with Indigenous geographic epistemologies, contrasting them with Western cartographic traditions and state-centric spatial frameworks.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.

General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences

University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice

Cross Listed Course(s): NAS 3300, PSC 3300