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Session I
HIST
253 First Peoples: An Introduction to Native American History
Nathaniel Sheidley, Assistant Professor of History
A survey of the social, political and cultural history of North America’s
native peoples from 1200 through the present. Case studies of particular
nations will be used to explore a wide range of issues, including
the politics of treaty making, the economic and environmental consequences
of the fur trade, “removal” and reservation life, pan-Indianism
and the “Red Power” movement of the 1970’s. In
addition to historical scholarship, sources will include autobiography,
fiction and several cinematic depictions of Native American Life.
Credit: 1.0
Course Fee: $2,000
Lectures M,W,TH 1:20 – 4:00
Location: Pendleton East 151
Nathaniel Sheidley
is an assistant professor of History at Wellesley College. A member
of
the faculty since 1999, he teaches
courses in the history of colonial and Revolutionary North America,
Native American history, and gender history.
Professor Sheidley graduated from Stanford University in 1990 and
received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American history from Princeton
University in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He is the author of
several articles and has presented his work at scholarly meetings
both in the United States and overseas. His current project, entitled
Preachers, Prophets, and Unruly Men: Religious Upheaval and the
Meanings of Manhood on the Southern Frontier, 1763–1815,
seeks to integrate Native American and United States history by
exploring the interplay of religious, racial, and gender differences
in the new nation’s southern borderlands. His work has been
supported by numerous organizations, including the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation, the American Philosophical Society,
and the Center for the Study of Religion and American Society at
Yale University.
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