ETW - Indigenous Peoples

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In what way does being Christian also signal civic belonging? When conversion to Catholicism occurs in contexts of large colonial projects, often spanning generations or centuries, what happens to the belief systems central to the lives of native or indigenous peoples before colonization? This course will focus on social formations and knowledge systems that shaped native peoples’ actionable responses to projects of conversion, nation and empire. Students will unpack persistent ideological constructs concerning native peoples from the 1500s to the present century, and read works that seek to present a view “from below.”