Bachelor of Science - Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies
About Bachelor of Science - Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies
Portland State University (PSU) is the only university in the state of Oregon to offer a major in Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies.
The program focuses on studies and practices of Tribal critical race theory, decolonizing methodologies, traditional and cultural ecological knowledge, and contemporary themes. Contemporary themes include:
- Community health
- Food sovereignty and the cultivation of first foods
- Indigenous land management
- Community development
- Resilience
- Indigenous futurisms
- Self-determination
This program offer students the opportunity to:
- Engage with a diverse range of epistemologies (oral, visual, and written), and discourses on tribal sovereignty and law, traditional ecological knowledge, models of Indigenous leadership, Tribal critical race theory, and decolonizing methodologies.
- Explore inside and outside the classroom through community-based learning including Indigenous ecological practices, collaborative research on natural resource management, and environmental sustainability.
- Examine and reflect upon resistance movements up to and including Red Power and Standing Rock, that assert and reaffirm Indigenous sovereignty and community resilience.
- Understand and address through critical theory, community engagement and discourse, the historical context and contemporary issues impacting social, economic, and environmental justice in Tribal and urban American Indian/Alaska Native/First Nations communities.
- Analyze and reflect upon their own identity, allowing students to forge an individual pathway of reflective decolonization alongside peers in an environment that encourages self-examination.
- Develop an understanding of Indigenous relationships today and in the past with the environment: land, water, animals, plants, weather/climate, seasons, cosmology/Indigenous astronomy, through food, medicine, craft, art, storytelling, governance, education, policy-making, and ceremony.
Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies graduates go on to careers in nonprofits, education, social services, Tribal government, and academia.
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