American Indian History examines pertinent themes, issues, and events relative to Native Amricans from pre-contact to the recent past. Native Americans were (and are) resiliant and adaptive peoples who countered massive invasions by maintaining and modifying tribal identities, traditions, communities, spiritualities and connections to the physical environment. This course employs a multidisciplanary approach. Indeed, the only way to understand native peoples and their past is to embrace multiple perspectives. We will therefore rely on the words and wisdom of historians, anthropologies, and of course, Native Americans.