NATIVE WESTS

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(Slashed with HIST 82405 ) This course introduces students to the major analytical frameworks historians use to understand the diverse and complicated encounters between Euro-Americans and Native Americans in what is now the United States from first contact in the sixteenth century through the forced integration of Native nations into the United States after the Civil War. These encounters will be rooted in what was called the history of the "frontier," but is now more commonly described as "western" history or the study of "borderlands." Readings will emphasize sociocultural diversity among Indian societies, Indian agency, and Euro-American policy frameworks for Indian relations.