MLTH 517 - American Indian Wars

Credit Hours: 3

A study of the patterns of Native American warfare from the advent of European colonization in the 1500s to the end of organized Indian military resistance in the United States in the 1890s. It particularly examines the specific wars that Native nations waged against European colonizers as well as American settlement expansion. It also emphasizes comparative history, examining global patterns of warfare involving western or colonial powers and non-western indigenous peoples.