C Native American History I

Catalog description

Term hours: 54 lecture. This course is a survey of the Native American experience from the pre-colonial era to the Indian Wars on the Great Plains, emphasizing the roles of Native Americans in the political, social, and economic development of American society. Utilizing epistemologies, theoretical frameworks and methodologies from Ethnic Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies, historical themes and events will be analyzed through an intersectional lens that interrogates categories of identity and power, including indigeneity, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and spirituality. Topics covered include: Indigenous civilizations across the Americas; Indigenous political, philosophical, religious, and gender systems pre- and post-European contact; European occupation, settler colonialism, and the racialization of Native Americans; the impact of the American Revolution on native peoples; the development of U.S. Indian policy and its culmination in Indian removal; the Indian Wars on the Plains for sovereignty and self-determination; and the rise of the reservation system. Emphasis is placed on examining the Native American experience through an anti-colonial and decolonial lens. (UC/CSU, AA GE, CalGETC).