Description
This course examines The Mandan (Nueta), Hidatsa (Nuxx baaga), and Arikara (Sahnish), known collectively as the Three Affillated Tribes, with European encounters from the age of Columbus through the end of the early modern period. Taking trade, violence, and missionary activity as its primary themes, this course will analyze the causes and consequences of the expansion of European power on Fort Berthold and across the globe. The three tribes’ social organization (land, ecology, kinship, gender roles, and protocols) will be analyzed on the cause and effect of the westward expansion.