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Compare US Indigenous literatures with the literatures of Indigenous peoples around the world
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Identify the presence of global indigenous issues within US Indigenous cultural materials
Assess the relevance of US Indigenous cultural materials for a contemporary understanding of Indigenous texts and issues worldwide
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Analyze the major cultural, historical, political, rhetorical, and literary conditions of US Indigenous literatures in a comparative context with international Indigenous authors and texts
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Compare the cultural, historical, political, rhetorical, and literary conditions of US Indigenous peoples with Indigenous peoples around the world (at least 50% focused on US Indigenous Peoples)
Identify conditions that indigenous authors had to overcome in order to begin and continue to publish their works
Assess the place of major figures in indigenous textual traditions
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Articulate the ideas, images, themes, and motifs shared by US and international Indigenous writers
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Identify Native American literatures in the US as a part of global Indigenous cultures and politics (at least 50% focused on US Indigenous literatures)
Identify major themes and rhetorical devices used in the traditions
Apply reading strategies to respond to texts
Apply critical terminology in the discussion of texts
Generate comparisons between works by authors of different tribal groups
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Apply international indigenous ethnic concerns to US Indigenous peoples’ experience of race, racial inequality, and ethnicity
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Articulate how international racial history provides a broader understanding of US Indigenous ethnicity and inequalities
Identify how international Indigenous concerns contribute to a more complex understanding of cultural assumptions and knowledge claims around US Indigenous peoples
Demonstrate empathy and self-awareness around the cultural perspectives and worldviews of Indigenous peoples
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Analyze authorial relationship with different audiences, both inside and outside the author's cultural group
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Compare authorial relationship of US Indigenous writers with Indigenous writers around the world (at least 50% focused on US Indigenous writers)
Analyze the relationship between dominant and marginalized traditions
Assess popular and critical reception of texts
Articulate processes involved in adapting text to film and in web and digital representation of indigenous issues
Analyze the significance of indigenous language preservation and language sovereignty as reflected in the texts
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Explore how indigenous writers simultaneously participate in a dynamic traditional culture and contemporary "westernized" culture
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Compare the “westernization”/tradition dynamic between US Indigenous peoples and Indigenous peoples globally (at least 50% focused on US Indigenous Peoples)
Identify local and national issues connected to and affecting indigenous peoples
Compare authorial strategies for negotiating identity in different settings, such as reservation and urban environments
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Examine human equality, shared humanity and international human rights in the literature and in activist discourse around indigenous rights
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Compare discourses of equality, humanity, and human rights of US Indigenous authors to Indigenous authors around the world (at least 50% focused on US Indigenous authors)
Identify inconsistencies in equality, humanity and human rights
Examine indigenous activist discourse and activist movements
Portray equality, humanity and human rights through an indigenous perspective
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Explain the value and contribution of oral traditions in the production of indigenous literature both past and present
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Compare and contrast the orality of US Indigenous and international Indigenous authors (at least 50% focused on US Indigenous oral texts)
Recognize the definition of oral culture and its characteristics in indigenous oral tales
Contrast oral with written literatures to discern the fundamental differences between them
Summarize the influence of oral traditions on contemporary written literature by indigenous authors
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Identify the discourses, rhetoric, and conceptual frameworks through which indigenous peoples have been defined exogenously by settler-colonial peoples
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Compare and contrast settler-colonialism as represented within US and global Indigenous texts (at least 50% focused on US Indigenous texts)
Explain how indigenous authors treat settler-colonial narratives of indigenous peoples
Express the various literary methods through which indigenous authors critique settler-colonial narratives
Contrast indigenous and settler-colonial narratives within indigenous literatures
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Investigate the theoretical underpinnings of indigeneity both within and beyond indigenous literatures
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Compare US and international Indigenous authors through an indigenous theoretical framework (at least 50% focused on US Indigenous authors)
Examine theories rooted in indigeneity, including concepts of personhood, sovereignty, survivance, and land
Identify the presence of indigenous theories within indigenous literatures in both form and content
Assess contributions of indigenous theoretical frameworks for life and culture outside indigenous literatures and communities