HIS 248 - The Native South

This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of the history of the Indigenous peoples of the U.S. South. Throughout the semester, we will develop a sophisticated understanding of the development of Southeastern Native societies over time and across place since prior to the arrival of Europeans and Africans through the Removal Era. We seek to understand how Native people in this region formed, maintained, and evolved as distinct groups united (and sometimes divided) by experience, belief, and action. This class is an immersion into the sixteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries as lived by the ancestors of those Native communities that call the South home today or look to it as their ancestral homeland.

This course also introduces students to key concepts and skills essential to the work of professional historians. This includes critical reading and analysis of primary and secondary sources; efficient and ethical research practices; writing and revision skills; documentation; presentation and public speaking skills; and dissemination of information to broad publics.

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement