(Open to 1L HLS students only) Professor Joseph William Singer Tentative Meeting Dates: Meeting time: 5:00 to 7:00 pm Dates: Tue Sept 15, Tue Sept 29, Wed Oct 14, Tue Oct 27
There are currently 574 federally-recognized Indian nations within the territorial boundaries of the United States. The U.S. has...
In 1920, Carter G. Woodson (the “father of Black history”) argued the following in the Journal of Negro History: “One of the longest unwritten chapters of the history of the United States is that treating of the relations of the Negroes and the Indians.” Historians have endeavored to write that...
What happened in the past? How do you know? Even though today we take great pains to document every major event that occurs, more than 99% of human history is not written down. How, then, can we determine with any certainty what people did, let alone thought about, hundreds, thousands, and even millions of...
What happened in America before 1492? What were the major turning points in Native American history? Why don't we know more about the ancient history of North America? Anthropology 1080 answers these questions by introducing you to the discipline of North American archaeology. This course...
This course will engage three major themes. First, it will review issues related to the complex relationships between anthropology and colonialism(s) and their after lives in the postcolonial settings in which anthropologists work. While it is not a course focused narrowly on anthropology and...
Philip J Deloria Monday/Wednesday, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5.2 million people identified themselves as being of American Indian or Alaska Native descent. Of these, 2.9 million identified themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native alone, about 1.7 percent of the nation’s population. These demographics...
