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To honor and preserve the history of sovereign Indigenous nations, this course engages the past on the premise that we were active agents shaping our story before and after Europeans entered it. This class will examine the diverse and complex cultural, economic, political, and spiritual systems of Indigenous peoples, the dynamics of Indigenous-European encounters, the changing relationship between sovereign Indigenous nations and the United States, and the (re)construction of Indigenous identity. Engagement with Indigenous and Western epistemologies will allow us to analyze them both as valid forms of conferring historical knowledge as well as to seek new ways of telling our story.