Native American and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas ((3))

Catalog description

This course provides students with a historical survey of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Told from the perspectives of Native American peoples, this course examines historical accounts, starting with the history of Indigenous lands up to the 1960s. This course explores the cultural, social, and political systems of multiple Indigenous societies across the Americas, such as California Natives, Mesoamerican civilizations, and the Tawantinsuyo in the Andean region of South America, among others. This course examines important historical periods for Native American and Indigenous peoples, such as colonization, forced removal, relocation, termination, boarding schools, assimilation, cultural genocide, and the formation of nation-States in relation to Indigenous peoples.