HIST 465 - History of the Iroquois: From Pre-Contact to Present

2019-2020 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course covers the history of the native peoples who formed the Iroquois League and Confederacy, from the time of their first contact with Europeans through the present day controversies that seem to appear in newspapers nearly every day. We will look at the formation of the League, the emergence of the Confederacy, the consequences of Iroquois involvement in the European Wars of Empire, and then the rapid dispossession of the Iroquois in the decades that followed the American Revolution. We will look at the application of various government policies in the United States and Canada to the Iroquois, and how the Iroquois have reacted to and adapted to these changes. Throughout, we will keep in mind the different histories of the constituent Iroquois communities that occupy present-day New York.

Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis