NASX 232D

Fall and Spring semester: in-person

Summer semester: online only

3 credits, undergraduate level-200, Diversity credit

Spring 2024 Instructor: Dr. Anita Moore-Nall

Summer 2024 and Fall 2024 Instructor: Dr. Matthew Herman

Course Description

This Core Diversity course covers basic academic topics in Native American studies with respect to tribal nations in Montana. Three units - Nations, Histories, and Cultures - comprise the basic structure of the course. Eight core questions based on these three units constitute the focus of the course. The examination of issues related to race, class, ethnicity, and indigeneity constitutes the Core Diversity focus of the course. 

Readings for this course may include, but are not limited to:

*Resource and materials list subject to change. Check with the instructor before purchasing books!*

  • Horse Capture, George (ed.) (1997). The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge. 
  • McNickle, D'Arcy. (1936). The Surrounded. 
  • Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee and Elders Advisory Council. (2005). The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  • Snell, Alma (ed. Becky Matthews). (2000). Grandmother's Grandchild.

Instructor

Dr. Anita Moore-Nall

Anita Moore-Nall earned her Ph.D. in Earth Sciences and a B.S. in Film and Televison from Montana State University. Anita is an enrolled member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Tribe of Montana. She joined the department in the Fall of 2023 after spending five years in Alaska where she taught Environmental Health, Circumpolar Health Issues and worked with six remote Alaska Native Villages looking at health impacts related to rural landfills. Her research focuses on how the environment or place can affect people’s health. She is interested in incorporating Native Science into traditionally Western Science curriculum.

Dr. Matt Herman

Matthew Herman earned his Ph.D. in English and a certificate in cultural studies from SUNY Stony Brook. He came to MSU from Stone Child Tribal College on the Rocky Boys Reservation in northwest Montana, where he taught in the Liberal Arts Program, and coordinated the Rocky Boy Tribal History Project. He has published in the areas of contemporary Native American literature, American cultural studies, composition pedagogy, and Indigenous political theory.His first book, Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature: Across Every Border, was published in 2009 by Routledge.

Tuition and Fees

If you are accepted into a qualified online program, see the appropriate MSU Tuition and Fee table below:

For more information, view MSU Fee Schedules.

 

How to Register

You must be accepted as a student to Montana State University to take this course. Learn how to apply.

Students register for courses via MSU's online registration system, MyInfo.

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For course information: 

Please contact Erika Ross at [email protected] or Anita Moore-Nall at [email protected] or Matt Herman at [email protected].