HIST 3153 Biographical Approach to History: Native Women: Pocahontas to Sacajaweya
Explores the history of the Native women leaders, such as Pocahontas, Sacagawea, Sarah Winnemucca, and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) to Wilma Mankiller (former Principal Chief of the Cherokee). This course will focus on the role that women leaders played in shaping the course of history from the colonial seventeenth century to the modern United States. Though cultural contact originating between British settlers, such as John Rolfe, and Native Americans, such as Powhatan, culminated in the territorial dispossession of Indigenous peoples and reservation systems of the twentieth century, Native women asserted their own vision of self-determination. This course includes lectures, readings (a few short articles), as well as film.