AMS 281—Native Americans and the Colonial Problem

How can our ideas about early American, Native American, and Euroamerican peoples be expanded to include Indigenous voices and perspectives? What happens when we center the experiences of Native American peoples and nations in our discussions of early America? Do our understandings of the meaning of the term ?colonial? shift when we look past the Revolutionary War to ask how the United States operates as a colonial power? Building on classic and recent scholarship in American Studies, History, and Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native Americans and the Colonial Problem introduces students to varied experiences of tribal nations navigating relationships with settler colonial societies in North America.