HISTORY 3126 - Negotiation and Conquest as Native American History

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

This course reviews the history of interactions and negotiations between Native Americans and European Americans. It emphasizes that conquest was a complicated process, incorporating both violence and negotiation, with results that continue to shape relations between Native and Euro-Americans. Rather than developing a linear narrative from contact to the present, the course examines episodes in which new social organizations between multiple Indian and white groups developed and the historical consequences of these episodes. Of special interest is the question of how power differentials between various groups shaped interaction and negotiation. Above all, the course investigates attempts by both Indians and Euro-Americans to shape and control the space around them in the face of larger social forces.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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