ANTH 317 Environmental Ethnohistory of North America
This course explores how the North American landscape was experienced and further transformed by the interactions between Native peoples and newcomers. The course begins with first contact between Native peoples and Europeans and ends with 21st century indigenous environmental activism. Course topics include the impact of capitalism and the global fur trade, the influence of settler colonialism on indigenous land rights, practices, and beliefs, and the cultural and environmental consequences of natural resources industries like fishing, forestry, and energy development.