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Indigenous Knowledge Commons

Indigenous Perspectives on Place

The course explores the nature of place, the importance of place, and how different cultures conceive place and orient themselves to it. Place is directly connected to culture, art, religion, history, environment, time, sound, narrative, identity, knowledge and values.

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Click on image to see the "Ask the Stones" and "Ask the Corn" Interactivities

Placeblog

Photo Essays are a major part of the graded work in the course.

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Study Materials are situated in the courseware Moodle.

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