This module will examine architectures created by Indigenous peoples in relation to the natural world. It will introduce a perspective of buildings as living beings related to the living earth and we humans in relation to each other, other animals, and all of the resources provided by the creator. As such, lectures will consider ethics of reciprocity and ceremony in construction and use, at least as much as we know from the material record and ethnohistorical knowledge. Each lecture will focus on a particular relationship to the natural world. Each lecture will end with works of recent architecture designed with principles of ancestral Indigenous architecture that emerge from an ancestral archetype. This emphasizes the continuity of Indigenous peoples and suggests a way forward in developing culturally relevant design languages for contemporary Indigenous communities. This module could be paired with another on architecture from South America to form the basis for a course on Indigenous architectures in the Americas. Another pairing could be with a module on Indigenous architectures from the late nineteenth century to today. Alternatively, lectures could be deployed as a m...