HIST 212 - Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Native American South

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

In the final decades of the seventeenth century, a Yazoo historian named Monchact-Apé embarked on an epic voyage to find the origins of his people whose ways of life had been violently disrupted by European colonization and slave raiding. After departing his homeland in the Lower Mississippi Valley, he traveled for many years through hundreds of Native American communities from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, learning much from the Indigenous women and men whom he encountered. In this course, students follow the lead of Monchact-Apé and learn about Indigenous networks, gendered sources of Native power, and how Native American nations and their resistance to European colonization helped shape the history of the region. The course examines Indigenous southern histories from before European contact to the era of the American Revolution. Students also examine the history of European settler colonialism and the mass enslavement of Indigenous and African peoples, and how Native Americans and African American resisted these systems of oppression including those who formed hybrid identities and communities across racial lines. Noel Smyth.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS