Indigenous Politics in the Modern United States

Harvard FAS

How have Indigenous nations won and exercised power in the United States during the twentieth century? To answer this question, the course will take students from the nadir of Indigenous political power at the end of the nineteenth century—the end of treaty making and the proliferation of boarding schools and allotment—through the resurgence of Indigenous self-determination, to contemporary challenges to and expressions of Indigenous sovereignty. Topics include the origins and spread of…