Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

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

COURSE DETAILS:

This course examines the history of Indigenous peoples in the lands now called North America from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It especially focuses on the lands that are now claimed by Canada and the United States. The development of these settler colonial states is fundamentally intertwined with Indigenous history and this course will pay special attention to these relationships. To balance this broad perspective, the course will also zoom in on specific people, events, and ideas. Students will read and analyze primary and secondary sources and make connections between different Indigenous histories and larger themes like settler colonialism, violence, surveillance, Indigenous sovereignty and futurity, ‘the West,’ ‘the frontier,’ and various conceptions of what it meant to be ‘an Indian.’ Indigenous art and writings, audio and video sources, and guest speakers will ground this course in Indigenous perspectives and stories.

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

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING NOTES: