The Department of Indigenous Learning is offering a variety of courses in the upcoming academic year (2024-2025). Please select from the links below for more information on some of our courses (the links will take you to the Pdf poster):

• INDI-2311-FDE: Settler Colonialism in Global Contexts

• INDI-2331-WDE: Comparative Community Development

• INDI-3315-WDE: Mino-Bimaadiziwin

• INDI-3435-FA: Indigenous People and the Land 

• INDI-4010-FA: Indigenous Peoples & Extractivism

INDI-2012-SDE:
Working with Indigenous Knowledges

Online/Zoom (Thunder Bay campus), Mondays to Thursdays, 7:00pm-10:00pm, May 1^st to May 22^nd, Spring 2024

Course Description: An introductory course where definitions and characteristics of Indigenous knowledge systems are explored. Students will also engage with key considerations to promote respectful and responsible engagement with Indigenous knowledges, including cultural appropriation, representation, intellectual property rights, cultural protocols and working with Elders.

* Please note INDI 2012 has replaced INDI 3501 and is a required course

Link for course details
Link to the IL webpage
You can access the poster in Pdf here.

INDI 3110 WA / INDI 4010 WA / SOCJ 5011 WDI: "Cultural Expressions of Abiayala" on Zoom (Thunder Bay campus) on Mondays, 11:30am-2:30pm, Winter 2024

Course Description: Abiayala is a term that has been used for thousands of years in the Gunadule language to refer to the Americas. It literally means “land in full maturity”, which challenges the colonial perspective of our continent as a young “New World”. This trans-Indigenous class includes oral, written, and recorded pieces from different genres and practices including oraliture, embroidery, painting, songs, performance, and cinema. Some of the readings and videos will be in translation from Spanish and Native Languages. The main objective of this course is to suggest cultural links between Indigenous peoples through their classical and contemporary expressions.

Instructor: Dr. Sanchez Martinez

To access the poster in Pdf, click here.

Link to course details

Link to the IL webpage

• Course code: INDI 3312-FA/FAO 
• Course Title: Shelter in Indigenous Communities
• Instructor: Dr. Robert S. Robson
• Course description: Offers students a detailed understanding of housing and the housing process in the Indigenous community. Beginning with the traditional shelter forms of Indigenous Peoples and moving through to the more contemporary housing structures delivered through, for example, the Rural and Native Housing Program, course content will focus on culturally appropriate shelter forms. From communal living space to shelter orientation, students will consider not only the housing needs of the Indigenous community but also the ways in which those needs have been met.
• Delivery Type:  in-person at Orillia and videoconference for Thunder Bay
• Delivery Time: Fridays, 11:30AM - 2:30PM
• Course Start date: September 5th, 2023
• Credit Weight: 0.5 FCE 
• Prerequisite: Indigenous Learning 1100 or permission of the Chair of the Department of Indigenous Learning. 
  Link to Indigenous Learning Thunder Bay timetable.
  
• Link to Indigenous Learning Orillia timetable.
• Poster in Pdf.

• Course code: INDI-3711-FDE 
• Course Title: Contemporary Health Issues
• Instructor: Elyse Cottrell-Martin
• Course description: Designed to provide students with an overview of the contemporary health issues confronting Indigenous communities in Canada, students will assess both the positive as well as the negative aspects of health and well-being. Not only will students acquire an understanding of the health-care issues that are confronting Indigenous communities, they will also address the health-care discourse and the movement to decolonize the same.
• Delivery Type: Zoom 
• Delivery Time: Mondays, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
• Course Start date: September 5th, 2023
• Credit Weight: 0.5 FCE 
• Prerequisite: Indigenous Learning 1100 or permission of the Chair of the Department of Indigenous Learning. Link to Indigenous Learning online timetable.

2023 Spring Course in the Department of Indigenous Learning

• Course Name: Introduction to Indigenous Learning
• Course Code: INDI-1100-SDE
• Credit Weight: 1.0 FCE
• Delivery: Web/Asynchronous
• Date Course Starts: Monday May 1, 2023
• Date Course Ends: Tuesday July 25, 2023
• Instructor: Dr. Kristin Burnett
• Prerequisites: None.
• Course Classification: Type A: Humanities; Type B: Social Sciences; Type E: Indigenous Content
• Course Description: This course serves as an introduction for students to the common theoretical concepts, approaches, methods, and related issues in the discipline of Indigenous Studies.

The Department of Indigenous Learning is planning to offer a summer course!

INDI-4301-ADE/SOCJ-5020-ADE: Education, Capital & the State
(Zoom course)
July 4 – August 15, 2022
Monday to Thursday
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Instructor: Dr. Robyn O'Loughlin

This course offers a historical critique of the rise of colonialism and governance, with particular focus on the education system. The first half of the course will focus on understanding the rise of colonialism and the impact in education. Literature and legislation will be examined to consider important socio-historical issues, racism, colonization and continued colonialism. Education is a large force behind the economy, so understanding educational influence is important in understanding capitalism. The second half will examine resistance movements led by Anishinaabe peoples. This course will offer discussions on how systems relying on colonization may be deconstructed and decolonized.

The Department of Indigenous Learning is planning to offer a summer course!

INDI-1100-ADE: Introduction to Indigenous Learning
(Zoom course)
July 4 – August 15, 2022
Monday to Thursday
10:00am-1:00pm
Instructor: Paul Burrows

This course provides an introduction to the experience of Indigenous Peoples before and after the arrival of Europeans. The aim of the course is to assist the student in exploring Indigenous traditions and understanding the current situation of Indigenous Peoples.

The Department of Indigenous Learning is planning to offer a spring course!

INDI-4301/SOCJ-5020: Settler Colonialism 
(Zoom course)
May 3, 2021-July 27, 2021
Fridays
11:30am-2:30pm
Instructor: Dr. Travis Hay

This course offers a regional interrogation of settlercolonialism (and its resistance) in northern Ontario.The first half of the course offers a historical critiqueof the rise of colonial economies and governancesystems on the northern shore of the Great Lake. Inthe second half of the course, students will survey aseries of resistance movements led by Anishinabepeoples that includes but is not limited to: blockades,occupations of land, memory walks, communitypatrol groups, hunger strikes and other grassrootsagitations for justice in Anishinabe territory.

You can view the Pdf poster here.

For course information, please contact the Department of Indigenous Learning Administrative Assistant: ​IndigenousLearning@lakeheadu.ca

The Department of Indigenous Learning is Offering a Spring Course!

INDI-3110-SDI: Policing Across Imperialism (Web course)
May 25, 2021-June 14, 2021
Instructor: Dr. Angie Wong

This course examines the relationship between power and the police under three modes of imperialism: Classical Colonialism, Settler Colonialism and Post Colonialism. Students will read historic and contemporary texts about colonial resistance and the ways in which power and violence constituted the making of settler colonial countries such as Canada. We also consider policing beyond Canada and examine the colonial and post-colonial situations in places such as Algeria, Vietnam and India. By the end of this course, students will have a deeper understanding of the role of the police and policing institutions in the making of a nation state.

For course information, please contact the Department of Indigenous Learning Administrative Assistant: ​IndigenousLearning@lakeheadu.ca