Criminalization, Regulation, and Resistance: Introduction to Native North American History
AMST 270
Spring 2024
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This course explores Indigenous politics and US settler colonialism across the long 19th century, from the Constitution's Commerce Clause to the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act. We will examine how the US state relied on both criminalization and regulation of Native peoples' gender, sexuality, religion, social relations, and cultural and economic practices to expand and consolidate power on the continent. Readings will address how Native nations sustained their sovereignty and negotiated settler encroachment, covering conflicts around the liquor trade, allotment policy, the Ghost Dance, conservation's consequences, salvage anthropology, Progressive-era activism, and American citizenship. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (HRAD-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Major readings: sample readings may include:
Paige Raibmon, Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
Philip Deloria, Playing Indian
Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
Louis Warren, God¿s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
Daniel Heath Justice and Jean O¿Brien, Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege
Frederick Hoxie, Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow nation in America, 1805-1935
Cathleen D. Cahill, Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the Indian Service, 1869-1933
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Examinations and Assignments:
Examinations and assignments: class participation, biweekly short reading responses, final paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Additional requirements and/or comments: this course will be taught by Antonina Griecci Woodsum |
| Instructor(s): Woodsum,Antonina Griecci Times: ..T.R.. 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: FISK404; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 9 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 7 | FR: 5 |
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