Portland-State-University 2024-2025 Bulletin

NAS 346 Contemporary Issues in Indian Country

This course examines issues and challenges in Indian Country today, including economic development, natural resource management, health, education, identity and assimilation, social and environmental justice, tribal sovereignty and treaty rights, and the revitalization of Native cultures in the 21st Century. Students will develop a deeper awareness of those issues and how tribes and urban Native communities and organizations are planning, advocating, and taking action locally, nationally, and globally. This course may be repeated for up to 8 credits.

Credits

4
  • Up one level
  • 300