Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Alfred University/Indigenous Latin America (Fall 2024)

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Course name
Indigenous Latin America
Institution
Alfred University
Instructor
Eben Levey
Wikipedia Expert
Brianda (Wiki Ed)
Subject
History
Course dates
2024-09-03 00:00:00 UTC – 2024-12-13 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
6


Prior to European conquest of the Americas, there were no "Indians" in the Americas. There were peoples who identified themselves in varying degrees of relationships - as kinship groups (the ayllu, for example, among the Quechua and Aymara in the Andes), as peoples, as communities, as rulers, as subjects, as tributary groups. It is tempting to say that everything changed after the conquest when European colonizers arrived and imposed the categories of "Indian" and indigenous upon the peoples of the Americas. That would not be entirely accurate. As we will explore over the course of this quarter, from the conquest to the present indigenous peoples have responded to changing circumstances in myriad ways - resistance, rebellion, acquiescence, adaptation, (non)compliance, collaboration. Indigenous cultural and religious practices continue to mark and shape contemporary Latin American societies.

The Wikipedia component of this course will ask students to engage in a narrow piece of this history, to write for a public audience, and to improve and expand Wikipedia's coverage of Indigenous Latin American history

Student Assigned Reviewing
Gzh2 Guerrilla Army of the Poor Wayuu people, Mapuche religion
BallerQ Wayuu people Guerrilla Army of the Poor, Tlatelolco (altepetl)
ARB0325 Enxet Mapuche history, Maya warfare
AUsaxon22 Maya warfare Enxet, Guerrilla Army of the Poor
Nototo43435 Mapuche history Wayuu people, Mapuche religion
User2418237 Tlatelolco (altepetl) Enxet, Mapuche history
Aliciafernandezb Mapuche religion Tlatelolco (altepetl), Maya warfare