The Indigenous History of the United States–A Summary
The many histories of America’s Indigenous peoples are long and fascinating. From advanced horticulture to complex societies, from resisting foreign aggression to adapting to new opportunities, from asserting their humanity to moving boldly into the future, join me on a journey of over 20,000 years of history.
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Resources for MMIWG issues
Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA – https://www.amnesty.org/fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AMR510352007ENGLISH.pdf
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center – https://www.niwrc.org/
Native Women’s Collective – https://www.nativewomenscollective.org/
Rising Hearts – https://www.risinghearts.org/
Sovereign Bodies Institute – https://www.sovereign-bodies.org/
Urban Indian Health Institute – https://www.uihi.org/projects/our-bodies-our-stories/
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women – https://www.csvanw.org/mmiw/
1978 US House report on Native child removals – https://www.narf.org/nill/documents/icwa/federal/lh/hr1386.pdf
Aztlan Historian has a great 3-part series covering the topic of disease in the Americas – https://youtu.be/T5fgoQdL84A?si=P1nei41kVSd3wlVl
Sources and suggested reading
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America – Pekka Hämäläinen
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources – M Kat Anderson
1491: Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus – Charles Mann
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power – Pekka Hämäläinen
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present – David Treuer
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America – Carrie Gibson
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations – Charles Wilkinson
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing Over Place – Coll Thrush
Handbook of North American Indians – Smithsonian Institution
My notes from college
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:51 Naming terminology
06:50 First habitation of the Americas
10:08 The development of agriculture
12:07 Silviculture or tending the land
14:41 Pre-contact population and trade
16:16 Wheels
18:30 The first mound builder societies
21:17 Pre-contact metallurgy
22:24 Hopewell and Mississippian societies
24:06 Cities of the Southwest and Great Plains
25:43 The Northeast
27:05 The Southeast
27:51 The Great Plains
29:43 The Southwest
32:15 Indigenous migrations
33:06 The Great Basin
34:05 The Plateau
35:05 California
36:17 The Pacific Northwest Coast
37:26 The Alaskan Subarctic
38:23 The Alaskan Arctic
39:55 European contact and disease
46:35 Middle grounds and French colonialism
52:32 Spanish colonialism, Pueblo resistance, and Horses
57:07 Firearms, the Beaver Wars, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
01:01:26 Settler colonialism
01:06:35 English colonialism, settler violence, and Native resistance
01:09:57 250 years of colonialism
01:11:29 The Trans-Appalachian West and the US way of war
01:15:04 Deportations and the laws that made them
01:20:17 California missions
01:24:40 Texas and the Comanche
01:26:28 The Pacific Northwest fur trade and Russian colonialism
01:27:57 Westward expansion and violence
01:29:39 Extermination of the bison
01:31:17 The Dawes Act and allotment
01:33:44 Indian boarding schools
01:38:09 The Indian New Deal
01:41:09 Termination and relocation
01:44:33 Removal of Native children and ICWA
01:50:30 Sterilization of Native women
01:53:48 Red Power
01:56:54 Alaska Natives and ANCSA
01:59:27 Modern Indigenous sovereignty
02:00:57 Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
02:02:55 Conclusion
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