North American Indians

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Demand 3 Credit Hours Ethnographic survey of the indigenous tribes of North America (excluding Mexico), including earliest archeological sequences followed by a description of the culture areas and traditional lifeways encompassed therein at the time of European contact. Emphasis upon the processes of culture change and adaptation over the past two centuries. Contemporary issues such as language renewal, the Pan-Indian movement, religious freedom, and tribal sovereignty are then placed within their cultural and historical contexts