Indigenous History to 1900: Origins, Contact, Colonialism

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course introduces students to the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America from the pre-contact period to the end of the nineteenth century. Major themes include the origins of Indigenous people, the diversity of Indigenous societies, contact experiences, and the impact of Christian missions, colonial warfare, treaties, and assimilationist policies. The course also addresses some of the traditional limitations of the discipline of history for interpreting the Indigenous past, and discusses the sources and methodologies that Indigenous and non-Indigenous historians have adopted in order to rethink Eurocentric interpretations. Max. 6 cr hr 1000 History may be counted for degree credit.