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AMIN 3872 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2017 | AMIN 3872 Section 001: American Indian History: 1830 to the Present (70407)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
HIST 3872 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 110
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Focus on the impact of federal Indian policy on American Indian cultures and societies, and on American Indian culture change.
- Class Description:
- How did American Indian nations navigate the turbulent nineteenth and twentieth centuries that brought a flood of intruders into their homelands and remake themselves into the vibrant and richly diverse peoples that they are in the present? Beginning with the turmoil surrounding Indian Removal policy in the 1830s, and extending into the present-day strugges of Indian nations to control their own destinies, this course serves as an introduction to American Indian history from 1830 to the present. Touching on such themes such as cultural resistence and and political resurgence in the face of U.S. colonialism, we will focus on the interface between the development of Federal Indian policy and American Indian resistance to U.S. initiatives as a unifying theme, and we will also consider major shifts in the nature of American Indian sovereignty into the present. This course stresses the integrity and adaptability of American Indian societies, and the centrality of ever-emergent American Indian identity to the experiences of Indian people. Particular topics include: Indian Removal and the concept of Indian Territory; Sovereignty: What does it mean? Encounters, east and west; Reservation Life; Pan-Indianism; John Collier and the Indian New Deal; the Indian Claims Commission; Termination and Relocation; Self-Determination and Indian Activism. Readings are designed to complement course session, and include documents, a monograph, a novel, and compiled oral histories of Indian peoples.
- Grading:
- 40% Midterm Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Quizzes
10% Class Participation
- Exam Format:
- Essay
- Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
20% Film/Video
30% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
- Workload:
- 100-120 Pages Reading Per Week
4-6 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
1 Quiz(zes)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/70407/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 November 2013
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2017 American Indian Studies Classes