Write a paper based on the physical and psychological violence that shaped the Native American Indians identity.
Academic style-whatever History majors use-think Chicago turbian style. If possible reference one of the 4 books that we read.
Course description
This course will focus primarily on nineteenth-century American Indian history, though we will begin during the Revolutionary War and end in the early twentieth century. Through a combination of lectures, films, and in-class and outside readings, we will explore the history of both conflict and accommodation between Indians and non-Indians.
At its core this course is about the many forms Indian resistance took over the course of the nineteenth century as indigenous peoples fought to preserve tribal communities and cultures in the face of attacks on their homelands, identities, religions, governments, and resources. It is also, however, about the United States’ ever-evolving political, legal, and even military strategies to address what it regarded as its “Indian problem,” strategies that while often negatively impacting Indian peoples could also contribute to their empowerment.
Books that we read
R. David Edmunds, The Shawnee Prophet
Perdue and Green, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents
Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experiment
