Criteria: Students will write double-spaced, typed page answers to the following three sets of questions and create a visual map. Also, be sure to include a bibliography with your paper. The word limit does not include the bibliography. The topic I chose is social issues & movements that impact Native American and Indigenous religious life. I want to connect it to the research I have related to the following topics: boarding schools, self-determination, historical trauma, & decolonization. I have gathered all the research material and annotated most of the articles I would like you to use. Instruction: Students will analyze social issues and movements that have impacted Native American and Indigenous religious life and connect it to course themes. Examples include boarding schools, self-determination, historical trauma, & decolonization. Students’ research should also reflect how research has helped them think intersectionally about social, cultural, political, and economic issues affecting Native/Indigenous peoples. Prompt: • Challenge Mapping: What is the social challenge that causes human suffering that you wish to understand? What is its history, and what are the social, economic, environmental, cultural, and political forces maintaining the status quo? Who is affected by it? What is the size and scope of the impact? What is the relationship of this challenge to other areas of concern or opportunity? Draw on readings and lectures in formulating your answers. (3 pages) • Solution Mapping: Who is already working to solve this problem? What are they doing? What efforts have been tried or are being tried, and what are the different models/approaches? What has worked, what hasn’t? How are some of these efforts linked to one another? What networks & resources exist that could further the solutions landscape? What has happened in the past, and what could happen in the future? Draw on readings and lectures in formulating your answers. (3 pages) • Impact Gaps: What is missing from the solutions landscape? Consider policy changes, information sharing/behavior change efforts, movement building, research, market opportunities, missing links, or other actionable responses. What role do you see for future private, public, and social sector interventions or collaborations? What are the lessons you have learned from researching this issue? Where were your assumptions challenged? If you had more time, what would you research next? Draw on readings and lectures in formulating your answers. (3 pages)
