Historical overview of Indigenous peoples to North America from the pre-contact period to the present. Emphasis on the diversity of those residing within the United States, the consequences of contact with incoming Europeans, and the ways in which indigenous people have adapted to rapid change. Themes may include creation stories, pre-contact societies, cultural contact and exchange, the impacts of settler colonialism, changing federal policies, and Native peoples’ activism and resilience over time. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)
Course Outcomes
- Describe and explain historical events using Indigenous-centered historiographical and pedagogical approaches.
- Analyze treaties, sovereignty, colonial and American Indian policy, and indigenous resistance movements.
- Distinguish major themes from regional, national, and international perspectives as defined within shared course materials, with special attention to areas identified and highlighted by indigenous scholars.
- Identify the impact of manufactured borderlands between indigenous in Canada, United States, and Mexico.
- Analyze and synthesize critical primary and secondary source materials.
- Synthesize course content in writing and discussion that reflects critical, comparative, and ethical engagement with the past.