The list below will be updated every week with a link to that week’s slides for A History of Native America with Maeve Kane through the Humanities Institute for Lifelong Learning.
October 8 – Sovereignty and Nation
- Introduction: What does sovereignty, nationhood, and survival mean?
- Defining “Indian”: Legal, cultural, biological, and political definitions
October 15 – The Politics of the Pre-Contact Americas
- The modern politics of the peopling of the Americas
- Three case studies of development before contact: Iroquoia, Pueblo, and Mississippi
October 22 – Contact & Cultural Exchange
- Trade, exchange, and cultural sovereignty 1600-1763
- The American Revolution and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
October 29 – The Civilizing Mission
- Indian play, Indian education, and American ownership of the Indian past, 1600-1970
- Cherokee and other removals, 1800-1865
November 5 – Wounded Knee and Wounded Knee
- Plains Wars and their legacies to Wounded Knee 1890
- Termination, Allotment, and Red Power to Wounded Knee 1973
November 12 – Self Determination
- Sovereignty, criminal jurisdiction, and civil rights 1924-present
- Self determination 1975-present
Further reading:
- Philip Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places
- Eva Garroutte, Real Indians
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
- Charles Mann, 1491
- Colin Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country
- Theda Perdue and Michael Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
- Richard Drinnon, Facing West
Haudenosaunee/Iroquois issues and history:
- Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus
- Karim Tiro, People of the Standing Stone
- David Preston, The Texture of Contact
- Gerald Reid, Kahnawa:ke
- Peggy Dymond Leavey, Moll Brant
- Irving Powless, Who are these People Anyway?
- Michael Oberg, Peacemakers
- Brian Rice, The Rotinonshonni
Fiction and poetry:
- Whereas, Layli Longsoldier
- Tekonwatonti, Maurice Kenny
- Tortured Skin and Other Fictions, Maurice Kenny
- Other works by Maurice Kenny
Podcasts:
- Toasted Sister – food sovereignty and culture
- All My Relations – news, sovereignty issues, and culture
News:
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