Professor: Philip Deloria

T - 12:00pm to 2:45pm

While some first peoples prefer culturally specific identities over the general term “indigenous,” others embrace indigeneity as an opportunity to establish global connections, explore overlapping colonialisms, assert political identities, or seek redress through international institutions. This seminar investigates the challenges and opportunities to be found in indigenous history.  Drawing from the Americas, the Pacific, the Arctic, Asia and elsewhere, we will consider settler colonialism, genocide, slavery and survivance, representational politics, and a range of common challenges such as language loss, climate change, and reconciliation.  We’ll explore colonial archives and oral histories, political tracts and legal cases, autobiographies, protest movements, and more.

Course Notes:

Required of all History concentrators in the spring term of their sophomore year and open to all secondary field students. This course may not be audited or taken Pass/Fail. It enrolls prior to shopping period through the History concentration. Please contact the ADUS in History if you wish to enroll without being a concentrator in History.