Description
The content of this course spans the fields of political science, American history, Native American studies, mulitcultural studies, and sociology. The focus is on individuals who have worked to preserve tribal self-determination, treaty rights, and constitutionally protected status as sovereign governments. The course materials include video clips of tribal leaders speaking of federal policies that altered and often destroyed tribal identifies, such as those of the removal, termination, and assimilation eras. The couse covers the historic eras of federal Indian policy from 1940s to the present. It examines the role that contemporary Native Americans had in shaping federal Indian policy, law, natural resoruces management, and other topic of regional national and international concern including the continuing survival of tribes and meeting overwhelming challenges. (Spring)