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Note: The Program subject code is changing from NAST to NAIS, effective Spring 2027.

Minor Requirements

The minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies consists of five courses from the list below and includes the following stipulations:

• at least one must be at the 300-level
• at least one must focus on North America
• at least one must focus on Latin America

Native American and Indigenous Studies Courses

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of NANE or NALE in the course offerings.

North American (N) and Latin American (L) courses

• ALST 204 - Performing Bolivian Music
• ALST 357/ANTH 357 - Indigenous Politics of Latin America Ìý(³¢)
• ANTH 228 - Women and Gender in Prehistory (L)
• ANTH 331 - The Ancient Maya
• ANTH 355 - Ancient Aztec Civilization (L)
• ANTH 358 - Native American Cultures (N)
• CORE C131 - Native Oklahoma (N)
• CORE C150 - Native People of Great Plains (N)
• CORE C159 - Maya (L)
• CORE C176 - Indigenous North America (N)
• CORE C188 - Haudenosaunee (N)
• CORE C199 - Bolivia
• HIST 223 - The American West (N)
• HIST 224 - Introduction to Environmental History (L,N)
• NAIS 150 - Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies (L,N)
• NAIS 243/HIST 243 - Native American History ÌýÌý(±·)
• NAIS 291 - Independent Study
• NAIS 300 - Continuity in Pueblo Communities/Santa Fe Study Group Prep (N)
• NAIS 302 - Contemporary Issues in the Native American Southwest (Study Group)
• NAIS 303 - Service Learning in the Native American Southwest (Study Group) (N)
• NAIS 320/RELG 320 - Native American Religious Freedom Ìý(±·)
• NAIS 356/HIST 356 - Global Indigenous History   (L, N)
• NAIS 360/HIST 360 - Borderlands of North America Ìý(±·)  
• NAIS 391 - Independent Study
• NAIS 491 - Independent Study
• RELG 203 - American Indian Religions (N)
• SPAN 457 - Colonial Black and Indigenous Thinkers

Additional Electives (with permission)

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of NAPR in the course offerings.

With prior permission of the director of Native American and Indigenous Studies, the following courses may also be counted among the North and Latin American electives when they have appropriate course content or a research paper is undertaken in one of these areas:

• ANTH 102 - Culture, Diversity, and Inequality (L,N)
• ANTH 205 - Archaeology of Warfare (L)
• ANTH 341 - Archaeology of Death & Burial (L)
• ANTH 361 - Ancient Environments and Human Legacies (L)
• CORE C171 - Mexico (L)
• CORE C177 - Peru (L)
• CORE C193 - Brazil (L)
• CORE C199 - Bolivia (L)
• HIST 209 - The Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800 (L,N)
• SPAN 468 - Vision/Revision: Span Conquest (L)

Native American and Indigenous Studies Program

For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Native American and Indigenous Studies programÌý³¦²¹³Ù²¹±ô´Ç²µÌý±è²¹²µ±ð.