INQ-270 | Native North America

Full Title: Native North America

Topic Description:

This course explores the history of Native North American cultures from the first peopling to exploration and subsequent colonization by European countries during the 15TH and 16th centuries. We will place ancient, regional cultures throughout North American in historic and cultural context by focusing on monographs regarding the peopling of the continent during the late Pleistocene epoch; the rise of ancient centers of social, economic and political power in the Anasazi Southwest and the Mississippi heartland; the coalescence of various nations in the Northeast to form Iroquois; and the merging of Native, European African cultures to form new colonial identities in the Southeast. We will end the course by considering contemporary social and political issues that directly relate to the changing methods of analysis that continue to broaden our knowledge of the ancient histories of Native North America.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2012