Description
This course will provide students with an introduction to histories of and by Indigenous people and communities in North America, from time immemorial to the end of the 1700s. We will unpack these histories using tools from various disciplines, including archaeology, Indigenous knowledge, and the written word. We will critically examine new scholarship and old stereotypes of Indigenous North America, both before and after permanent European arrival in 1492. And we will explore how Indigenous peoples, polities, and philosophies shaped the world, in the past, present, and possibly the future.