Indigenous US-Mex Borderlands

Catalog description

This course covers the histories of Indigenous people living in what we now refer to as the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The course discusses origin stories, contact and conquest, and the colonial era, but it will focus on how the emergence of the U.S.-Mexico border has impacted Indigenous peoples. It pays special attention to questions of Indigenous survival, nation-building, and the maintenance of cross-border cultural ties and identities. Keywords: Native American, Southwest, History.