Course Description

HI476* Aboriginal North America: Interpreting Native History Since Columbus 1.0

This comparative seminar examines the post-contact experience of Native peoples in North America (including "Indians", Metis, Mestizos, and Inuit) to better understand historical, Aboriginal identities under colonialism. The course will cover the following selected topics: contact, epidemics, trade and work, social change, encounters with Christianity, violence, the evolution of governmental policies towards First Peoples, pan-Indianism, activism, and cultural renaissance, and Native and non-Native interpretations of the past. {C/S}

Exclusion: HI496c*.

Official electronic version updated at 4:25 p.m. December 18, 2003

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