CUL 207 - Introduction to American Indian Literature

GEM Stamped: GEM 5: Humanistic And Artistic Ways Of Knowing

3 Credits

This class will offer an investigation of American Indian literatures from pre-contact times to the present. We will look at how American Indian writings of both yesterday and today have attempted to shore up a sense of cultural identity and tradition through written and orally transmitted stories or narratives. Our approach will be roughly chronological, examining many of the more well-known touchstones of Native/colonial relations such as first contacts, Christian missionary movements, forced removals, western plains wars, and the Indian Boarding School programs of the late nineteenth century.