HIST 3612: Native America

Course Description

This course introduces students to the history of America’s First Peoples. Although the topics covered in the course are wide-ranging, the course emphasizes certain unifying themes: the diversity of indigenous peoples and cultures; the agency of First Peoples; Native contributions to the United States and world at large; the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of Native/European interactions and the strategies of accommodation and resistance; the evolution of federal Indian policies and Native American responses to them; and contemporary issues confronting Native communities. (YR).