Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I am interested in participating because I want to add more policy change activities to a course where students often feel powerless. They are more informed of the issues after taking the course, but they need to understand just how powerful they are and how they can leave a lasting mark on our campus and community. I have also heard positive responses from other faculty who have attended this training.
Course Description:
This course centers violence against women through the lens of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) movement that centers awareness to disproportionate rates of disappearances, murders, and other forms of violence against Indigenous relatives. This course systematically investigates how legal systems, including Indian and federal law, tribal sovereignty, and colonialism relate to this epidemic in both the US and Canada. This course also highlights the significant contributions of Indigenous advocacy and provides a historical view of the moment with attention to recent efforts in Colorado and federally. One of the founding concepts from this class is the colonial history of international borders. We will draw from Canadian scholarship throughout this course.
Taught By:
Deanne Grant
Associate Professor
Sociology, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Fort Lewis College
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