In these illuminating lectures from Professor Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), a history of Native America is provided from the time shortly before the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present. Focusing on the Columbian Exchange, Indians and the American Constitution, American Indian Removal, the Civil War, and the modern age, Professor Blackhawk concludes his revealing course by addressing the issues that continue to affect Native Americans today.
Lecture 1 North America Before 1492
Lecture 2 The Columbian Encounter, Exchange, and Conquest
Lecture 3 Native Peoples and French, Dutch, and English Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
Lecture 4 The Play-Off System and the Seven Year's War
Lecture 5 Native Peoples and the Revolutionary Republic
Lecture 6 American Indians in the North American West Before Lewis and Clark
Lecture 7 The Constitutional Crisis of American Indian Removal
Lecture 8 American Indians in the Civil War Era
Lecture 9 The Indigenous West of Mark Twain
Lecture 10 The Age of Assimilation
Lecture 11 Early Twentieth-Century Indian Activism and the Indian New Deal
Lecture 12 World War II and the Rise of Termination
Lecture 13 American Indian Activism and Self-Determination
Lecture 14 The Miner's Canary: American Indian Sovereignty in the Twenty-First Century