CHIST 3370 Indigenous America
This course will complicate traditional narratives of US history by centering American Indians’ diverse voices and histories It will explore the cultural complexity of American Indians and their responses to the expansion of Europeans in North America. In keeping with themes many Native American scholars emphasize, this course focuses on Indigenous peoples’ relationships with the land and Europeans’ violent seizure of that land. Topics include: colonialism; agency, resistance, and assimilation; Indigenous environmentalism; civil rights; urbanization.