Manifest Destiny: Four U.S. Army Generals and the Modern Face of Native America

Melissa Tatum
Summer 2015
FRIDAYS |  
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
August 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015
Course Format: Hybrid
Location: Main Campus
Tuition: $120.00

In the 1800s the newly created United States of America was seized by what was labeled “Manifest Destiny”–a deep-seated drive to expand from coast to coast. This drive encountered several obstacles, ranging from the challenges presented by geography and travel to the fact that large segments of land were already claimed by America’s indigenous people. The impulse toward a unified continent was also derailed by the Civil War and the division between the states. The military played a significant role in conquering the West and, obviously, in the Civil War. This course will explore how the actions of four nineteenth-century generals–Grenville Dodge, Joseph K. Barnes, Richard Henry Pratt, and Ely Parker–would help shape the face of modern Native America.

Required Reading

No textbooks are required for this class. Readings will be made avaialbe on our password-protected website at http://course.hsp.arizona.edu by early July.

Meet Your Instructor

Research Professor of Law

MELISSA TATUM is a professor at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law, where she specializes in Indian law and tribal government. She has spent more than two decades working in Indian country, and most of her work involves the structure and relationship of government systems. Those interests fueled her two most recent books (both of which were coauthored) Structuring Sovereignty: Constitutions of Native Nations and Law, Culture & Environment.  

Location

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Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States

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