ECON 186 - Land in Lakota Culture, Economics, and History

(SOAN 186) FDR: SS4
Planned Offering: Spring. Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources exist.
Credits: 4

A review of the history of Lakota land from 1851 to present and its importance to Lakota cultural identity, political sovereignty, and economic development. We examine specific federal policies including the treaties of 1851 and 1868, the extermination of the buffalo herds, the confiscation of the Black Hills, the creation of the reservation system, and the Dawes Act among others. Students spend nine days off-campus to participate in workshops at the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies and to visit sites in and around the Pine Ridge Reservation, the Rosebud reservation, and the Black Hills. Guse, Markowitz.