Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4F · IGETC Area 4C · CSU GE Area D3 · CSU GE Area D6 · CSU American Institutions Area US3 · CSU American Institutions Area US1DescriptionThis course covers the history of the United States from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on Native Americans. The course demonstrates that assimilation was the basis for federal Indian policy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explains how self-determination and sovereignty replaced assimilation during the latter-twentieth century. Topics include the efforts to dismantle Indian trust land, Native American communal life, and indigenous cultures, termination of sovereign Indian nations, and current political tensions. Indigenous survival and revival in the latter twentieth century is a key emphasis. This course is designed for anyone interested in United States or Native American History. 