Join the Smithsonian and an award-winning professor to recount an epic story of resistance and accommodation, persistence and adaption, and extraordinary hardship and survival.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Native America: A Story of Survival
- 02: The Columbian Exchange: New Worlds for All
- 03: The Native South and Southwest in the 1600s
- 04: Werowocomoco and Montaup in the 1600s
- 05: Iroquoia and Wendake in the 1600s
- 06: Indian-European Encounters, 1700-1750
- 07: The Seven Years' War in Indian Country
- 08: The American Revolution through Native Eyes
- 09: Indian Resistance in the Ohio Country
- 10: Indian Removal: Many Trails, Many Tears
- 11: Native Transformations on the Great Plains
- 12: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and Uncivil Wars
- 13: Native Resistance in the West, 1850s-1870s
- 14: The Last Indian Wars?
- 15: Challenging Assimilation and Allotment
- 16: American Indians and the Law, 1883-1903
- 17: The Ghost Dance and the Peyote Road
- 18: Native America in the Early 1900s
- 19: American Indians and World War I
- 20: Making a New Deal in Native America
- 21: American Indians and World War II
- 22: Indian Termination or Self-Determination?
- 23: Native Radicalism and Reform, 1969-1978
- 24: Reasserting Rights and Tribal Sovereignty
Taught by
Daniel M. Cobb
