The summer field course is cross-listed with RELI 4500 and will be team-taught by Religious Studies Prof. Mary Keller and Mary Humstone of American Studies. Based out of Cody, Wyoming, the course provides students with an interdisciplinary study of Heart Mountain, a prominent landmark with several layers of significance in American history and culture. Students will explore the area and its ecology and history through field trips, landscape surveys and meetings with representatives of the various groups for whom Heart Mountain holds special significance, including Plains Indians, homesteaders in the Shoshone irrigation district, Japanese-Americans interned at the Heart Mountain relocation center, and conservationists with the Nature Conservancy. The first days of the course coincide with the annual Heart Mountain Internment Camp pilgrimage event and the final days coincide with a three-day Heart Mountain event that includes an academic seminar, a field day on the mountain with Apsáalooke (Crow) tribal members, and an early morning Pipe Ceremony led by Grant Bulltail, Apsáalooke Pipe Lighter. The final project for the course is the creation of a cultural geography of the mountain, by individuals or in groups, working with multi-media or traditional text. Course begins July 8. Cody field dates are July 18-27, 9:00a - 5:00p.
For more information contact Mary Keller at 307 250-1474 or mkeller@uwyo.edu; or Mary Humstone at 307 766-4929 or humstone@uwyo.edu.
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