HIST 2210: North American Indigenous Peoples

Texts of important primary sources illustrating the relationship between Native Americans and the federal government. Materials are drawn from five principle sources: reports of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, Congressional debates, judicial decisions, treaties, and acts of Congress.

Even as interest in the powerful, often tragic history of Native America grows, many books continue to perpetuate long-standing misconceptions of the past as well as the romantic steretypes often popularized today. Readers can now rely on Encyclopedia of North American Indians for an authentic and often surprising portrait of the complexities of the Native American experience.

Provides side-by-side chronologies of Native American history and world history. It tries to place the history of Native Americans in the larger world context.