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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