Tribal Natural Resources

The Tribal Natural Resources track focuses on all aspects of natural resources (i.e., hydrology/water, soils, grasslands, forests, agriculture, etc.) as they pertain to Indigenous peoples, tribal natural resources management, and traditional ecological knowledge. Students will have the option to pursue lines of inquiry spanning the biological, physical, ecological, social, managerial, and engineering sciences. Students will be prepared for careers as researchers and managers of tribal lands and working with tribes and organizations that are aligned closely with tribal natural resource management.

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Course Subjects A through E

  • AMIN 4501 | Law, Sovereignty, and Treaty Rights | Periodic Fall and Spring | 3 cr
  • AMIN 4511 | Indigenous Political Economies | Periodic Fall and Spring | 3 cr
  • AMIN 4525W | Federal Indian Policy | Periodic Fall and Spring | 3 cr
  • AMIN/HIST 5890 | Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History | Periodic Fall and Spring | 3 cr
  • AMIN 8301 | Critical Indigenous Theory | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • AMST/HIST 5910 | Special Topics: American Colonialism | Periodic Special Topics Offering | 1 - 4 cr
  • ESPM 5014 | Tribal and Indigenous Natural Resource Management | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • ESPM 5202 | Environmental Conflict Management, Leadership, and Planning | Every Spring | 3 cr
  • ESPM 5241 | Natural Resource and Environmental Policy | Every Spring | 3 cr
  • ESPM 5245 | Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • ESPM 5256 | Natural Resource Law and the Management of Public Lands and Waters | Every Fall | 3 cr

Course Subjects F through T

*Denotes Duluth campus offering.

  • FNRM 5104 | Forest Ecology | Every Fall | 4 cr
  • FNRM 5114 | Hydrology and Watershed Management | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • FNRM 5140 | Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Natural Resource Management | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • FNRM 5411 | Managing Forest Ecosystems: Silviculture | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • FNRM 8109 | Research Problems: Indigenous Natural Resource Management | Every Fall and Spring | 1 - 5 cr
  • LAW 6236 | Indian Law | Periodic Spring | 3 cr
  • MTAG 5110* | Principles of Tribal Sovereignty I | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • MTAG 5120* | Principles of Tribal Sovereignty II | Every Spring | 3 cr
  • PUBH 6242 | Cultural Humility with American Indian Populations | Every Spring | 2 cr
  • PUBH 6243 | American Indian Research, Evaluation, and Collaborations | Every Spring | 2 cr
  • PUBH 6246 | General History of American Indians Post Colonization and Review of Historical Trauma | Every Fall | 2 cr
  • TRES 5100* | Foundations of Indigenous Environmental Systems and Worldviews (Bioregionalism) | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • TRES 5101* | Tribal Natural Resource Program Management I | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • TRES 5102* | Tribal Natural Resource Program Management II | Every Spring | 3 cr
  • TRES 5201* | Integrated Ecosystems Stewardship I | Every Spring | 3 cr
  • TRES 5202* | Integrated Ecosystems Stewardship II | Every Fall | 3 cr
  • TRES 5301* | Tribal Natural Resource Economics | Periodic Spring | 3 cr