Indigenous Time - 10 Weeks

Mon+Th, 6-8pm ET

10 weeks, Feb 3-April 17 (Break March 24-30)

Search Google Images for “Native Americans,” and the results will mostly show photographs from the 19th century. This course investigates current and past Indigenous American conceptions of time. We will examine three phenomena: 1) creation and origin stories, and their continued role in contemporary Native governments, cultures, and societies; 2) treaties, and other ways of marking political and economic relationships with non-Native governments; and 3) policy eras, particularly the US government’s efforts to eliminate, assimilate, and organize Native nations in various ways.

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Instructor: Mary Klann is a lecturer in Native American history, writer, and union organizer. She is the author of Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America (University of Nebraska Press). She holds a PhD in US History from UC San Diego.