Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Examines selected themes in the history of Aboriginal peoples of North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students with credit for FNST 326 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course examines Indigenous histories of Canada and the United States in the period since 1850. It is a wide-ranging course which covers major themes in Indigenous-settler relations while keeping the focus on Indigenous peoples themselves. We will see how Indigenous peoples resisted, adapted to, and refused settler colonialism, examining instances of violent conflict and passionate activism, of strategic diplomacy and selective adaptation, and of persistent maintenance of historic practices and knowledges regardless of settler colonial impositions. While surveying the trends in Indigenous historical experience, we will also analyze the points of divergence. Specifically, we will study how class, status, gender, and sexuality produced differences within Indigenous communities. In discussing all of this, we will also make note of how these histories continue to have repercussions for Indigenous peoples in the present.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Learning Goal #1: You will emerge from this course being able to point to both changes and continuities in Indigenous histories and identities since 1850, and to discuss how this past relates to contemporary Indigenous issues today.
Learning Goal #2: You will cultivate an awareness of the diversity of Indigenous experiences throughout Canada and the US, and in particular, be able to speak to how Indigenous peoples living on either side of the border were affected by differences in Canadian and US settler policies.
Learning Goal #3: You will progress as a researcher and a writer, and in particular, you will develop your capacity to share academic knowledge and arguments with a more general public audience.

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Materials

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