Native Peoples of North America

Join the Smithsonian and an award-winning professor to recount an epic story of resistance and accommodation, persistence and adaption, and extraordinary hardship and survival.

Syllabus

01: Native America: A Story of Survival
02: The Columbian Exchange: New Worlds for All
03: The Native South and Southwest in the 1600s
04: Werowocomoco and Montaup in the 1600s
05: Iroquoia and Wendake in the 1600s
06: Indian-European Encounters, 1700-1750
07: The Seven Years' War in Indian Country
08: The American Revolution through Native Eyes
09: Indian Resistance in the Ohio Country
10: Indian Removal: Many Trails, Many Tears
11: Native Transformations on the Great Plains
12: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and Uncivil Wars
13: Native Resistance in the West, 1850s-1870s
14: The Last Indian Wars?
15: Challenging Assimilation and Allotment
16: American Indians and the Law, 1883-1903
17: The Ghost Dance and the Peyote Road
18: Native America in the Early 1900s
19: American Indians and World War I
20: Making a New Deal in Native America
21: American Indians and World War II
22: Indian Termination or Self-Determination?
23: Native Radicalism and Reform, 1969-1978
24: Reasserting Rights and Tribal Sovereignty
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Daniel M. Cobb

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