History 213 - History of Turtle Island: Introduction to Native North America
Intro to Native North America
Fall
2023
01
4.00
Patricia Dawson
TTH 03:15PM-04:30PM
Mount Holyoke College
122058
Skinner Hall 216
pdawson@mtholyoke.edu
This course surveys the history of Turtle Island, or Native North America, from origins to the present day. It provides an introduction to the many hundreds of diverse Nations across the continent through the use of specific case studies, as well as Indigenous methodologies and interdisciplinary methods such as oral history, art and material culture, literature, film, and more. This course covers themes such as land, sovereignty, survivance, gender, kinship, race, identity, diplomacy, and colonialism.
Meets history department's pre-1750 requirement.