HIST3121 - 01 - Surviving Columbus: His. of Nat.American

(DM) Diversity and Multiculturalism

This course explores the events and currents of the past 500 years from the perspective of selected Native groups in North and South America,from the period of the first contact through the colonial period and culminating in the modern period. Course readings and class discussions focus almost exclusively on the indigenous peoples of Mesomerica and the Andes, the Pueblo nations in present-day New Mexico, and the Lakota Sioux nation of present-day South Dakota. Successful students will understand the ways in which Native Americans construct their identities and organize their communities and how these strategies allowed them to adapt and survive the changing economic and political processes associated with colonization and nation-building.