HIST 360 | Indigenous Peoples' History and U.S. Settler Colonialism

With histories that stretch back in North America for over 20000 years¿or to "time immemorial"¿Indigenous peoples continue to shape and protect their homelands, their identities, and their futures. This course examines those histories, focusing on the ways Indigenous peoples have resisted forces of settler colonialism designed to erase or eliminate them. The course also explores how Indigenous histories must be taken into account and respected in order to understand the formation and development of the United States, which over the course of its history has appropriated from Indigenous peoples so much¿plants, lives, cultures, bodies, land and more. This course examines how Indigenous peoples have countered dispossession through what Anishinaabe writer and scholar Gerald Vizenor calls "survivance"¿a combination of survival and resistance. The course delves into how Indigenous histories have always, and are still, being made in culturally vital ways by Indigenous peoples.