Course

In this survey course about issues affecting Native peoples, we will discuss historical events such as the assimilation era and its devastating policies of allotment and Indian education; the shift toward the Indian New Deal and its decriminalization of Native identity and strengthening of Native government; the backsliding into the destructive federal policies of termination and relocation, which utterly transformed Native communities; the response to termination by Red Power activists; and, beginning in the 1970s and continuing into the present, the era of Native sovereignty and self-determination.