Topics:

1 Introduction; America before Contact

2 Ethics and Methodology; Native American history to 1830

3 Trails of Tears: Indian Removals, 1815 – 1845

4 How the West Was Lost: Reservation System and Indian Wars, 1845 – 1886

5 Wounded Knee and the Myth of the Vanishing Indian

6 “Americanizing” the American Indian: Surviving Assimilation

7 Winds of Change: Seeds of Reform, the Indian New Deal, Native Americans and WWII

8 Termination, Relocation, Urbanization, 1945 – 1960

9 The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1961 – 1980

10 Transnational Indigenous Activism

11 We Are Still Here: Renewal since 1980

12 Contemporary Issues