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Course name
Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Institution
Vanderbilt University
Instructor
Carwil Bjork-James
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Cultural Anthropology
Course dates
2023-08-24 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-12-15 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
20


Course description: Indigenous peoples have been intensely involved in struggles over their sovereign, legal, treaty, and human rights for centuries. This course looks at these efforts in the Americas from the people-to-people treaty making to the rise of local and transnational indigenous movements in the second half of the twentieth century. We will consider how indigenous peoples both respond to legal frameworks and press their positions into national and international human rights standards, on issues ranging from governance to cultural survival, from environmental management to language policy.

Students will critically assess the place of indigenous people in North American history articles, help put indigenous people on the map in Wikipedia, and create or thoroughly revise a Wikipedia article relevant to a research project.

Main article writing goal: Your goal for this assignment is to produce a page that meets the Good Article criteria (WP:GA?). That page explains these criteria, which can be summarized as well-written, with a defined structure, well-researched, broad in its coverage, and neutral. Your final article should be comprehensive and engaging without being excessively detailed. Length is not the primary criterion for judging your work, but contributions of fewer than 2,000 words of added or thoroughly revised prose are inadequately short. Wikipedia recommends that their articles not exceed 40 thousand characters (roughly 8,000 words).

Please note that all assignments are due by Sunday Night at the end of the assigned week. (Even though, for now, the calendar system uses Sunday to Saturday weeks.)

The Wikipedia Project Assignment sheet is on Brightspace and also avaliable here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqofkuo7mqrl8nr/Wikipedia%20Project%20Assignment%202020.pdf?dl=0

Some resources for researching and writing on this topic are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carwil/Indigenous_Rights_Resources

Writing advice: The Perfect Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_article | Writing Better Articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles

Student Assigned Reviewing
Rileybuus Bear Butte
Rcnewman Evens Indigenous music of North America, Indigenous language
Lrli Indigenous music of North America Indigenous language, Indigenous architecture
Rosenam2 Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica Indigenous peoples of Arizona, Indigenous architecture
Payton Frankiewicz Terena people Inuit women
Mcgovekc Indigenous architecture Bear Butte, Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica
JustAJar4 Native American tribes in Texas, Native Tribes in Texas Indigenous land rights, Evens
Oliviachung5 Indigenous language Indigenous music of North America, Native American tribes in Texas
Elliekearns Tribal courts Indigenous land rights, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Marieatthemill Indigenous peoples of Arizona Native American tribes in Texas, Bear Butte
KittyJolee Inuit women National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Tribal courts
Knelsonfaith National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Indigenous peoples of Arizona, Tribal courts
AedanHopper Natives Land Act, 1913 Terena people, Evens
DivineIrakiza Indigenous land rights Natives Land Act, 1913, Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica