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CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Examines selected themes in the history of Indigenous Peoples of North America from the beginning to the mid-nineteenth century. Students with credit for INDG 325 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course is a broad overview of the history of the Indigenous peoples living in the continent now called North America. This land has many Indigenous names including Aki, s̓olh tém:éxw, Inuit Nunangat, Diné Bikéyah, Turtle Island, and Anahuac. The course will span the millennia of Indigenous life in these lands and their encounters and relationships with peoples from other places. The course will end in the decades following the War of 1812 as power began to shift in the east while the vast majority of the continent continued to be an Indigenous world. We will pay careful attention to questions of historical perspective and narrative, the shifting nature of colonialism, ecological change and encounter, and the cultures and perspectives of Indigenous peoples.

This course is writing intensive and will include weekly in-class writing assignments as well as in-class midterm and end-of-term reflection papers. Participation is important as we seek to discuss challenging questions and concepts. This course requires careful study of assigned primary and secondary readings every week.

Note: the grading breakdown is a placeholder and may change for the finalized syllabus.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

This course will help students to develop their abilities to:

· Research effectively

· Communicate clearly through academic discussion and writing

· Critically analyze primary and secondary sources

· Thoughtfully discuss complex events and ideas like Indigenous sovereignty, settler colonialism, and reconciliation.

· Identify connections between events, people, and ideas from different times and places

· Think historically by identifying cause, effect, change, and continuity over time

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